VIVA LAMANTIA!

A highly anticipated event! That'd be the publication of THE COLLECTED POEMS OF PHILIP LAMANTIA, edited by Garrett Caples, Andrew Joron and Nancy Joyce Peters. Also a Foreword by Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Bibliographical research by Steven Fama (the latter being the poet's ideal reader which any poet would be blessed to have!) And there's a celebration this Wednesday in San Francisco -- if you're in the area, I suggest you hightail it over to:

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