High Poet: The Life and Work of Philip Lamantia
December 31, 2019 Philip Lamantia 24 citations
Philip Lamantia drafted fragments of a memoir titled *High Poet*, regarding himself as a visionary poet who sought intellectual understanding, spiritual transcendence, and poetic essence from sciences, philosophy, and history. He welcomed visions through meditation, religious ceremony, and psychotropic substances. In 1944, at age sixteen, he left high school in San Francisco to join war-exiled Parisian surrealists in New York, and later lived and wrote in Mexico, Morocco, France, Italy, Spain, and Greece.