Comprehensive selection of Philip Lamantia's prose and poetry for a complete literary portrait
Edited by Garrett Caples, ensuring critical analysis and scholarly context
Explores themes of rebellion, identity, and artistic transformation in postwar America
Includes manifestos, travelogues, and wartime declarations for diverse perspectives
Dynamic representation of the surrealist and Beat literary movements
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By Philip Lamantia Edited by Garrett Caples
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Preserving Fire recounts the life and thought of Surrealist, Beat Generation, and San Francisco Renaissance poet Philip Lamantia through his fugitive prose works. Ranging from poetry to politics to mythology to dance, from manifestos to travelogues to wartime declarat
