EKSTASIS - WALLACE BERMAN'S COPY, INSCRIBED TO HIS BROTHER-IN-LAW

by Philip Lamantia

$2,750 · Offered by Captain Ahab's Rare Books · No longer available

First edition

San Francisco: The Auerhahn Press, 1959. First Edition. An extraordinary copy of the Italian-American poet's second collection of verse. For California's poetry community of the 1950s and 1960s – and for Wallace Berman, in particular – Philip Lamantia served as a direct link to European Surrealism. More than any poet of his generation, Lamantia shared the Surrealists' enchantment with the irrational and he

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