1989
from Bed of Sphinxes (New & Selected Poems, 1943-1993) City Lights Books, 1997
Philip Lamantia (October 23, 1927 - March 7, 2005) was an American poet and lecturer. Lamantia's visionary poems were ecstatic, terror-filled, and erotic which explored the subconscious world of dreams and linked it to the experience of daily life.