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Brémond , Jacques. Brief essay on Philip Lamantia, "Révélations d'un jeune surréaliste de Philip Lamantia," in LeLibraire.com
Cunningham, David. Essay on French surrealism, from the Literary Encyclopedia
Foley, Jack. A review of Philip Lamantia's Bed of Sphinxes: New & Selected Poems 1943-1993. In Poetry Flash #282, Sept. 1999
Rexroth, Kenneth. "The Influence of French Poetry on American," includes mention of French surrealism and Lamantia. Europe [journal] (February 1959)
Obituary: Philip Lamantia, in The Independent, March, 2005, by Marcus Williamson
Obituary from the San Francisco Chronicle Philip Lamantia. S.F. Surrealist poet, Visionary verse of literary prodigy influenced Beats, by Jesse Hamlin
The history of Circle Magazine, an experimental San Francisco publication started in 1944 that published Philip Lamantia when he was only 16
A site from the Naropa Institute's Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics contains audio files of lectures given at Naropa by Beat writers. The Naropa Archive Project is preserving and providing access to over 3500 recordings made at Naropa since 1974
Hayward, Michael. The publishing history of Beat writers, MA thesis (1991)
Details on the reading "6 Poets at 6 Gallery" in San Francisco, 1955
Professor Larry Smith's timeline for the Beats which puts Beat events in the context of cultural history
Book Collecting: Beat Literature, article by a book collector, Donald W. Miller, Jr., MD
Excerpt from A Secret Location on the Lower East Side: Adventures in Writing, 1960-1980, by Steve Clay & Rodney Phillips. Based on the acclaimed 1998 exhibition at The New York Public Library documenting experimental literary publishing in this period. Courtesy of Granary Books (now blocked)
"A Secret Location on the Lower East Side: Adventures in Writing, 1960-1980." Underground Publications Document Poetry's 'Mimeo Revolution' in Exhibition at The NY Public Library, featuring the handmade, experimental publications of work by writers and artists of the period. Press release about a 1998 exhibition at the NYPL (removed)
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