Finding Aid to the Philip Lamantia Papers, 1944-2005
Finding Aid to the Philip Lamantia Papers, 1944-2005
Collection Number: BANC MSS 2006/179
The Bancroft LibraryUniversity of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, California
- Finding Aid Written By:
- Lucy Allen
- Date Completed:
- January 2007
Scope and Content of Collection
Series 1 Correspondence 1944-2004
Arrangement
Scope and Content Note
Allen, Donald 1957-1989
Ballentine, Lee 1985-2001
Burk, Ronnie 1988-2001
Caples, Garret and Naruta, Anna 1998-2002
Codrescu, Andre 1986-1993
Cornford, Adam 1987, 1988, 1999
Between Dante, Robert and Graubard, Allan undated
Dejardin (Lamantia), Lucille 1959-1963
De Sales, Aymon 1965-1999
Fama, Steve 1998-2002
Ferlinghetti, Lawrence 1966-1986
Ford, Charles Henri 1966-1992, undated
Ginsberg, Allen 1959-1993
Hart, Howard 1958-1997
Hoffman, John [?] undated
Iverson, Roderick 1990-2002
Jacobsen, Mimi (Marian) 1959-1964
Joans, Ted 1979-1999
Kerouac, Jack 1958-1959
Lamantia, Mary 1957-1968
Leite, George 1944
Lionni, Paolo 1961-1964
Malanga, Gerard 1966, 1973
Martinelli, Sherri 1958-1959
McClure, Michael 1959-1982
Moore, Abd Al-Hayy 1980-1987
Munson, Don 1964-1974
Nesbit (Vandenbroeck), Gogo (Goldian) 1955-1991
Le Pellec, Yves 1974
Peters, Nancy J. 1965-1998
Letters of Condolence (to Nancy Peters) 2005
Materials Regarding Lamantia's Death 2005
Petersons 1962-1963
Rao, Raman 1987-1999
Redmond, Anthony 1978-1989
Ronan, Stephen 1970-2001
Rosemont, Franklin 1973-1993
Rosemont, Franklin 1973-1993
Rosemont, Franklin, to others 1975, 1978
Between Rosemont, Franklin and Schwartz, Stephen 1974
Schwartz, Stephen 1967-1998
Sidney-Fryer, Donald 1982-2001
Smith, Larry 1986-1995
Tyler, Parker 1954-1967
Vandenbroeck, Andre 1955-1995
Vandenbroeck, Andre and Nesbit (Vandenbroeck), Gogo (Goldian) 1963-1995
Viglini, Janelle 2001-2003
Whalen, Philip 1960-1964
Arsenal 3 (Includes text to be submitted by Patrick Mullins) 1974
Birding-related 1985-1987
Magnetic Fields 1975-1977
Penguin Books Ltd. (Includes Proofs) 1967-1968, 1976
San Francisco Art Institute 1978-1979, 1982
General Correspondence 1948-1979
General Correspondence 1980-2004, undated
Series 2 General files 1949-2004
Arrangement
Scope and Content Note
Tau- unpublished typescript 1955
Touch of the Marvelous typescript 1966
"Two Poems from a Declamation of Poetry" 1953
Fragments from an Aeroplane- "New Work" 1958
Poems from Destroyed Works, other poems 1959, undated
Poems, Vision and Instigation of Mescalin 1961
Poems 1962-1963
"New Work 1967- several unpublished poems" 1967
Afternoon Dream, War the Gory Rice 1967
Typed Poems for The Blood of the Air circa 1968
Poems- Pantyhose Stamped with the Head of Medusa, The Faery Chambers, Freeway Telephone 1960s
Ceylonese Tea Candor, with Spanish translation by Ernesto Cardenal undated
Gloves of Stone, Arrows at Dawn undated
Introduction to Hoffman's Farewell Final Albatross 1959
Notes on Poetics of Weir (prose) 1960s
Notebook 1967-1968
Notebooks undated
Address Book undated
Receipts, Household Notebook, Housing Contracts 1966-1967
The Holy Bible and other poems by Paolo Lionni 1961
Ecstasy is a Number, other poems by Margaret Randall 1961
Books of poetry by Jack Hirschman 1973
Photos by Bruce Connor [?] undated
Poetry Posters-Allen Ginsberg, Robert Duncan, Auerhahn Press Poetry Reading Flier 1965, 1969
Bowery Press Broadsheets- Tony Scibella, James Ryan Morris 1969
Articles 1963-1969
The North American Book of the Dead 1966
Every Man His Own Doctor 1971
Como una Piedra que Rueda- Anthology of surrealist writing in Spanish undated
Film Culture magazine (with reference to Lamantia?) Fall 1963
Postcards 1955, 1958, undated
Map of North American Indian Tribes, Washo-Peyote Songs 1972, undated
Miscellaneous Pamphlets 1947-1959, 1963
Erotic Poems-Typescript undated
Xerox of Erotic Poems (complete) 1946
Xerox of Erotic Poems (4 pages missing) 1946
Typescript of Ekstasis, untitled love poems, other poems circa 1960
Poems from Ekstasis undated
Proofs of Destroyed Works undated
Typescript of Destroyed Works undated
Scope, partial typescript of Destroyed Works, other poems 1950-1960
Contents of Hoffman manuscript, drafts of poems in Ekstasis, draft of material for Scope, note written about Tau 1954, undated
Scope, Experimental Forms, Lava, other poems and notes for a play 1957-1958, undated
Crystals and other poems (Mexico), some translated into Spanish 1957-1961
Notes on Babbel, Subconscious Mexico City New York, "Blank" poems, other poems 1959
Poems 1950s
Autobiographical prose, poems 1960, undated
Hypodermic Light, note on anarchism, Advent, Confirmation, Ekstasis poems, other poems 1960, undated
Vision and Instigation, Crab, autobiographical notes 1961
Cinerama ( Scope), Tau-related poems with musical notation, " Denver is a Green Centipede", several handwritten poems circa 1960
Vision and Instigation of Mescalin, Destroyed Works, other poems circa 1960
Poems circa 1960
Poems circa 1960
Incantations, other poems undated
Babbel with explanation undated
Conscientious objection statement, letters to the selective service by and on behalf of Lamantia 1945-1946
Putting it Straight-Suggestions of an Ex-Drug Addict 1960
Mexico-related prose circa 1962
Notebooks undated
Notebook undated
Journal of a visit with the Nayeri (Mexico)- includes photographs 1955 April-May
Address Book undated
Poems by others 1950-1959
Poems by Michael McClure 1956
Poems by Hoffman 1959, undated
Writings by Paolo Lionni 1959-1961
The End by Allen Ginsberg 1960
"Poetry by John Hoffman" undated
Poems by Lenore Kandel (typescript) undated
Poems by Don Munson undated
Flyers for poetry reading, McClure broadside 1964, undated
List for declamation of poetry 1954 January
Poetry magazines 1949-1966
Poetry magazines 1959-1960, undated
Life magazine article, The Only Rebellion Around, about Lamantia and others 1959
The Floating Bear newsletter 1961
The Bay Window 1958 April-June
Catholic pamphlets and prayers 1957-1958, undated
Mexican Immigration Department Documents 1959, 1962
Photos undated
Miscellaneous 1949-1965
Materials removed from Lamantia Library- copy of Narcotica, Auerhahn press promotion 1950s-1960s
Selected Poems 1943-1966, final page proof 1967 February
Selected Poems 1943-1966, typescript and notes undated
Typescript of The Blood of the Air 1969
Poems, "after The Blood of the Air" 1969 October
Notebook undated
Address Book undated
Magic Psalm, by Allen Ginsberg 1960
Drawing by Aymon [De Sales] undated
Reviews of Touch of the Marvelous and Becoming Visible 1967, 1982
Speech to Haitian Intellectuals by Breton, The Dance by Fraina, The Arrow of Time by Layzer 1945, 1917, undated
Le Temple de L'Homme- rough translation by Nancy Phillips 1966
The King of the Pharonic Theocracy- translation by Nancy Phillips 1966
Her-Bak Disciple-translation by Nancy Phillips 1966
"Texts for P."- The King of Pharonic Theocracy and other texts by Schwaller de Lubicz undated
"Texts for P."- Le Temple de L'Homme undated
Astrology charts undated
Geometry notebook 1986
Geometry research materials undated
Pamphlets, postcards, etc. from trip to Spain and Morocco 1961-1964
Miscellaneous artwork 1968, undated
Art clippings 1965-1969
Painting exposition fliers- Granell 1947, 1956
Miscellaneous 1966, undated
Touch of the Marvelous- typescript and notes circa 1965
Touch of the Marvelous- Typescript and correspondence 1966
Touch of the Marvelous- Correspondence 1965-1966
Proofs for Selected Poems 1943-1966 1967
Selected Poems 1943-1966- typescript and correspondence 1966-1967
Wier o Rama 1960
Poems, babble 1961-1964
Poems 1961-1964
Poems 1965
Poems 1965-1966
Poems- The Sun is Bleeding Over the Sky, What is Not Strange, others 1966
Poem 1966
"Latest versions", poems 1967
Poems 1967-1968
Poems and prose 1968
I Touch You..., The Double Place, Many Times, Only the Woman I Love is Eternal Fire, Untitled (The Truth) 1960s
Early gathering of poems later appearing in The Blood of the Air 1960s
Poems 1960s
Original drafts of poems 1960s
Poems 1960s
There's a Mountain of Horses Upside-Down, Portrait in Libra, Io and I, other poems, autobiographical notes undated
Notebooks 1963-1964
Notebook-music tables, translations, miscellaneous notes 1964
Notebooks 1965-1966
Notebooks circa 1965-1967
Notebook- Includes poem for John Hoffman 1966
Notebook- writings seemingly related to Lamantia's return to surrealism 1967
Notebook undated
In and Out Like That - "Report" about being busted in Morocco 1964
Headlines typescript, by Paolo Lionni 1962
Art Clippings undated
"Hotels and Restaurants in London" 1965
Ekstasis, photographs of Lamantia 1965
Postcards 1960s
Miscellaneous 1960-1970
Primavera, Becoming Visible, other poems, some unpublished? 1969-1972
Poems 1970
Whole Fragments and early 1970s poems 1972-1973
Between the Gulfs 1973
Prose and Poems 1973, 1976
" Becoming Visible originals" 1978-1980
Radio Voices 1979
Poems circa 1970
Green Lion, The Golden Times, The Element You Love undated
Notes 1970s
Notebook- "Automatic poems" and others 1970
Notebook 1971
Notebooks circa 1973, 1977
Notebook-note on Becoming Visible circa 1980
Notebooks undated
Red Skeletons by Harry Crosby 1927
Sleeping Together- A Book of Dreams by Harry Crosby 1929
Pomes and Disquisitions by Wilder Bentley 1968
"Kosmalack Memories 600" 1969
Poems by Richard Waara 1973-1974
Mummy Tapes- poems by Pete Winslow 1969-1970
Poems by others 1970s
Poem by Pete Winslow circa 1970
Poems by Stephen Schwartz circa 1970
Poems by Adriana Wood circa 1970
Poems and letters by Jamie Adair undated
Drawings by Wayne Kral 1972, 1974
Art photographs- by Mario Cesariny? 1976
Mule -surrealist object photographs by Robert Green undated
Alice Farley's "Lands End"- photographs undated
Article by André Breton 1935
Contes Bizarres- Introduction 1964
On Ego Psychology: A Critique of the Structural Approach to Psycho-Analytic Theory 1966
Miscellaneous articles 1972-1984
The Debate on Anarchism by Noam Chomsky and Eric Hobsbawm 1973
Ut Pictura Poesis - Poetry article by John Graham 1973
Article on Costanoan Indians 1974
Articles by Jerry Estrin, Andre Coyne and Vitezslav Nezval 1981, 1958, 1970
Poetry reading flier, photographs of Lamantia, City Lights Publications catalogue 1973
World Surrealist Exhibition 1976
World Surrealist Exhibition poster 1976
Alice Farley fliers 1982
Alice Farley posters undated
Magnetic Fields-notes undated
Mailing lists undated
Drawings undated
Postcards undated
Miscellaneous 1970s
Typescript of Touch of the Marvelous (second edition) 1973
Notes on Touch of the Marvelous 1970-1972
Typescript of Becoming Visible undated
Typescript of Meadowlark West undated
Poems 1970-1971
Writings-poems and prose 1973-1974
The Uncertain Sciences, other poems 1975
Poems 1976
Poems-typed and handwritten 1976-1977
Writings-poems and prose undated
Prose 1972-1974
Handwritten notes, poems? circa 1975
Notes undated
Notebook 1970-1971
Notebook- exquisite corpses, poetry 1975
Notebook- note on poetry undated
Notebook undated
Collective writing 1974-1975
Poem by Pete Winslow 1969
Poems by others 1965, undated
Translation of Spanish surrealist poems 1974 December
Essay by Pete Winslow on Selected Poems circa 1970
Poems by Julia Vose undated
Poems by Paul Nagy undated
Poems by Christopher Pearse Cranch 1844
The Gnôsis of Light 1918
Transit of Venus by Harry Crosby 1931
Chariot of the Sun by Harry Crosby 1931
Articles on Surrealism 1971, 1974
Articles on Surrealism 1979, undated
"Introduction to the Discourse on the Dearth of Reality" by André Breton, The Philosophy of Fine Art, Chapter 3-"Poetry" by Hegel undated
Typescript translation of Aurélia by Gerard de Neval, segments of writings by André Breton undated
Antinarcissus- Surrealist Conquest- newsletter with poems by Lamantia and others 1969
Nightwatch Newspaper 1969, 1973
"Chicago-related" articles, newsletters 1964-1975
Articles on Lamantia 1967-1987
The Poetry Center 1970
San Francisco State College 1970
Extract From a Letter to Franklin Rosemont, Notes for an Introduction to the First Principles of Surrealism 1971, undated
Catalogue of City Lights Publications 1974
Alice Farley's Bride of the Prism 1974-1975
Justice in this Hemisphere: The Case of Paranagua and Pilla 1976
Miscellaneous 1970s
Poetic Matters-typescript and correspondence 1975
Typescript of Becoming Visible 1976
Poems 1973
"Poetic Texts" since The Blood of the Air 1975-1976
Poems 1976-1979
Prose, notes 1975
Prose, some regarding second edition of Touch of the Marvelous undated
Notebooks 1971-1978
Hidden Locks (or a Sleepwalkers Guide to S.F.) by Stephen [Ronan] 1979
Eugenio F. Granell- poems and correspondence 1982, undated
The Splendid Bird of Sabotage by Ted Joans undated
Charmelle and the White Smoke and Lola by Howard H undated
Clinica y Selva de la Anatomia undated
Julius Caesar by Joyce Mansour undated
Comments on Lamantia's poetry (by other writers) undated
The Anaesthetic Revelation and the Gist of Philosophy by Benjamin Paul Blood, Obsidian-Man Pomo Myth 1874, undated
Miscellaneous articles 1874-1970
Articles on surrealism and poetry 1934, 1969-1980
La Verdad Contemporánea by Juan Breá and Mary Lou 1943
The Day of Doom by Michael Wigglesworth 1966
Armes & Bagages 1975
Discourse upon the Essence and Form of Poetry by Fabre d'Olivet undated
Absolute Love by Alfred Jarry undated
La Forme Réfléchie by Claude Tarnaud undated
Alarme/Alarma- F.O.R. (newsletter) 1975-1978
Chicago surrealist-related papers 1972-197
Clippings, reviews, related to surrealism 1973-1975
Book catalogues 1979, undated
San Francisco Art Institute, The Poetic Spirit class 1979
Jean-Jaques Jack Dauben Artwork undated
Miscellaneous 1970-1979
Typescript of The Blood of the Air 1970
Xerox of The Blood of the Air (uncorrected) 1970
Touch of the Marvelous- typescript and correspondence 1971
Typescript-no title undated
Poems 1965, undated
"Unfinished poems" 1972
Sotere Torregian- correspondence and introductory remarks for The Wounded Mattress, by Lamantia 1970
Biographical sketch of Benjamin Peret 1969
Poetic Matters undated
Radio Voices -drafts undated
Autobiographical information undated
Notes undated
Notebooks 1966-1969
Poems by others 1969
Poems by Nancy J. Peters undated
Artwork-Chicago 1970-1978
This Body of Black Light by Daniel Moore 1969
Articles on surrealism 1976
San Francisco Art Institute Course- Poetry Now 1978-1979
San Francisco Art Institute Course- The Poetic Spirit 1978-1979
San Francisco Art Institute Course-readings 1978-1979
San Francisco Art Institute Course- student evaluation forms undated
San Francisco Art Institute Course-miscellaneous 1978-1979
Miscellaneous- Chicago related 1974, undated
The Little Magazine submission request 1974
Notebooks 1960-2003
Notebooks undated
Business cards undated
Poems 1974, 1979-1980
Poems 1975
"Unpublished poems" 1975
Poems 1977
Poems 1978-1979
Poems 1979-1980, 1986
Poetic Matters undated
Notebooks 1974-1982
Address book undated
Collective writings 1974
Writings- Gerard Malanga 1970-1974
Hidden Locks by Stephen Schwartz 1971
The External Skeleton by Stephen Schwartz 1973
Writings- Thom Burns 1973
Primitive Numbers by WJ McGee 1973
The Surrealist Movement in the United States, 1974 1974
Aspects of the Ethnology of Automatism by Stephen Schwartz 1974
Beyond Linguistics: Theses on Jakobson's Questions de Poetique by Stephen Schwartz 1974
Writings by others 1974-1975
Brook Rothwell - writings and correspondence 1975-1979
Magnetic Fields submission- Ribitch 1975
Poems- Laurence Weisberg 1975
Writings- Janet Parker 1975
Poems- James Brook 1979
Poems- Nanos Valaoritis undated
Poems- Richard Waara undated
Poems- Tom Burghardt undated
Writings- Ted Joans undated
Writings- Joseph Jablonski undated
Poems- David Volpendesta undated
Writings- Larry Smith undated
Poetry reading fliers 1985, undated
Capablanka, by Samuel Greenberg 1916
Le Chateau de Grisou by Cesar Moro (photocopy) 1943
Le Melog 4-5 International Poesie 1976
Lautreamont: Poet of the Muscles and the Cry, Poetry, Property of Matter undated
"Radical America" 1972
"Magazine Litteraire" 1972-1975
Astrology 1969-1973
Postcards (no writing) undated
Miscellaneous 1971-1987
Becoming Visible- typescript with notes undated
Poetic Matters typescript undated
Poems 1973
Poems- "New Poems Since April '73" 1973
Poems 1974-1975
Poems 1976
Poems 1977
Poems from Becoming Visible 1977-1978
Alice Farley- Dancing at Lands End by Lamantia 1982, undated
Vital Conflagrations undated
Autobiographical prose undated
Notebooks 1969-1971
Notebooks- exquisite corpses undated
Addresses undated
Samuel Greenberg and Hart Crane- A Study of the Lost Manuscripts (dissertation of Marc Simon) 1968
Writings- Stephen Schwartz 1971-1973
Poems- Robert Feigenbaum 1972-1973
Le Mort du Mort by Thomas Burghardt 1976
Poems- Aurelien Dauget 1976
"Arsenal and catalogue material" 1976
Writings by others undated
A Murderous Arc in Search of its Phantom by Thomas Burghardt undated
Photocopy of Piedra de Sol by Octavio Paz, with English translation 1969
Miscellaneous Articles 1975, undated
Lettres de Guerre- Jaques Vache undated
Anarchist newspapers 1946-1949
Antinarcissus 1969-1970
Surrealist publications 1972, undated
"Arsenal Bulletin" 1974
"On the Defection of an Opportunist" ("Conclusion of the Schwartz Affair") 1974
Miscellaneous 1978, 1975, undated
Materials removed from Lamantia Library- Antinarcissus, Gerome Kambrowski exhibition, miscellaneous 1970s
City of San Francisco 1975 October, September
Notebook undated
Notes and addresses undated
Birders Life List and Diary 1982-1986
Birding checklists and notes 1977-1988
Birding checklists (empty), birding pamphlets 1981-1992
Poems by others 1982-1987
Miscellaneous writings by others 1983-1984
Reviews of Lamantia 1981
Poetry readings 1987, undated
Ammunition, with review of Becoming Visible undated
The Poetic Spirit- syllabus and course materials 1979
The Poetic Spirit- course materials 1979, 1982
San Francisco Art Institute-related papers 1979-1982
The Poetic Spirit-student work 1981-1982
San Francisco Art Institute course materials 1982
The Poetic Spirit-syllabus and course materials 1982
Course materials- surrealist texts translated by Christopher Perret 1980s
Collected Poems- Giovannitti (photocopy) circa 1961
Miscellaneous non-fiction articles 1965, undated
Photocopies of Samuel Greenberg poems 1978
Foye text about Poe 1980
Interview with E. Roditi (about André Breton) from Gay Sunshine 1982
Eluard- et Ses Amis Peintres 1982-1983
Miscellaneous newspapers and newspaper articles 1982-1989
Surrealist publications 1989
The American Italian Historical Association, and Italian Welfare Agency 1989
The Anderson marsh 1985
Book catalogues 1981-1984
Bisbee poetry festival 1983
Trip to Egypt- postcards, stamps, ticket undated
Papyrus Pharaonic Calendar 1994
Poems wrongly attributed to Lamantia undated
Miscellaneous 1981-1986, 1996
Materials removed from Lamantia Library- notebook 1986
Materials removed from Lamantia Library- postcards, miscellaneous art museum exhibition materials 1980s
Materials removed from Lamantia Library- "The Bird Identification Calendar" 1987
Poems- " Bed of Sphinxes", Becoming Visible, typescript-unpublished poems? 1980s
Poems- Ex Cathedra 1981
Poems 1981
Poems 1981-1983
Poems 1981-1988
Poems- "latest versions" 1982
Poems 1982
Poems 1982-1983
Poems 1983
Poems- "to be typed" 1983-1984
Poems (handwritten) 1983, 1986
Prose 1980
Autobiographical sketch undated
Notebook-poetry 1977-1989
Notebook-poetry, course notes, dreams 1978, 1980-1981
Notebooks 1980-1981
Notebook- contains first part of Ex Cathedra 1981
Notebook- Flaming Water, second part of Ex Cathedra 1981
Notebook-poetry 1981
Notebooks 1981-1983
Notebook- West the Road to Daladano 1982-1983
Miscellaneous 1955, 1978, 1980-1982
Final typescript of Meadowlark West undated
Poems- "most to be typed for Meadowlark West" 1981-1985
Typescript 1984
Poems (handwritten) 1984-1985
Manuscripts 1985
Typescripts 1985
Photocopies of typescript 1985
Unidentified Manuscript [?] 1986
Poems, notes 1983-1985
Poems 1983-1986
Poems, notes 1984
Poems (handwritten) 1984-1985
Poems, notes 1984-1986
Poems 1985 July
Poems, notes 1985
Drafts of Diana Green 1986
Diana Green , in progress 1986
Prose, poems, notes 1986
Poems 1986
Poems, notes 1987-1988
Collection of poems (for reading?) undated
Prose 1984-1986
Notebook 1986-1986
Writings by others 1970
Poems by Jane Adair 1984
Poetry collections by Stephen Schwartz 1985
Poems from the Larry Blake readings 1985
Marie Wilson-artwork undated
San Francisco Press Club poetry reading, includes photographs 1986-1987
Spiders - interview by Lawrence Distasi 1989
Biographical information undated
Poetry reading fliers undated
Dialogue, Democracy, and Peace by Octavio Paz 1984
Newspaper clippings 1982-1987
Clarke Ashton Smith plaque dedication 1985
Miscellaneous 1980-1989
From the Center museum exhibition poster 1986
Manuscript- book two of Between the Winds 1988
Unidentified manuscript 1988
Photocopy of unidentified manuscript 1989
No Closure manuscript 1989
No Closure 1989
No Closure- "Feb. to Early March" 1989
" No Closure to March 2, 1989", manuscript 1989
Manuscript sent to Caliban 1989
Typescript of Bed of Sphinxes (incomplete) undated
Draft copies of Unacheived, correspondence regarding submission to Sulfur 1987
Poems 1988 February-July
Poems- "August 15-August 27" 1988 August
Poems 1988 September-October
Poems 1988 December
Poems (for Sulfur?) 1988, 1991
Poems 1989 January-October
Poem fragment 1989
Poems circa 1989
Poems 1989-1990
Poems 1989, 1991
Diana Green , other poems undated
Poems undated
Notebook 1988, 1991
Notebook- includes original draft of Redwood Highway 1988
Notebooks 1989
South American poetry translated by Mary Crow 1981
Towards the Primeval Lightning Field by Will Alexander 1997
Poems by Henri Michaux, translated by Louise Landes-Levi 1998
Poems by David Gascoyne undated
Requiem Fires by Steven Frattali undated
Writings by Donald Sidney-Fryer undated
Interview by David Meltzer 1998 November 4
A Bioregional Bibliography 1988
Stefan Baciu 1993
Photocopies of miscellaneous articles and poems by others undated
No Closure, other writings 1977-1981, 1990
No Closure 1989
Poetics by Pluto , Birders Lament , Unacheived 1989
Egypt - "Latest drafts" 1989
Poems 1989 December-1990 February
Poems 1989-1991
Poems, letter written in Cairo 1989-1991
Poems 1990 February-April
Poems-to be typed for poetry reading 1990 May
"Egypt pt II", other poems 1990 June-August
Poems, manuscript of No Closure Part Two 1990
Poems 1990
Poems- "selected red check to be typed" 1990
Dynamics of Violence submission materials 1990-1991
Poems 1991 June-August
Poems, "in process" 1991
Poems for Sulfur 1991
Poems 1991
Poems 1991-1992
Egypt, notes 1992
Revelation 1992
"Reworked poems from 1970s" 1992
Poems for Egypt: Analogues 1992-1993
Prose- No Closure- related? 1989-1990
Prose 1990
Draft of letter to Charles Duit circa 1990
Preface for Waino by Lamantia 1991
Prose, notes 1991-1992
Notes 1991-1992
"Important notes" undated
Notebooks 1990-1994
Twenty-Eight Years Later by Ruth Weiss 1991
The Snarling Gift by Adam Cornford 1991
Essay on Destroyed Works, by Jody Norton 1991
Poems, collages by Ronnie Burk 1990s
Paintings by Knute Stiles 1996, 1999
Poetry reading by Diane DiPrima and Philip Lamantia 1992
Publicity Materials 1992
Miscellaneous writings by others (photocopies) 1957, 1960, 1985, undated
Miscellaneous clippings, articles 1986-1997
Papers, cards concerning the death of Mary Lamantia 1990
Proof sheets for Bed of Sphinxes, corrected by Lamantia 1996
Bed of Sphinxes typescript corrected by Lamantia 1996
Poems, notes, introduction by Lamantia to Ventriloquist, by Ken Waino 1991, undated
Poems 1992-1994
Poems- "in progress" 1996
Poems 1998 August
Notes, drafts of correspondence 1998
Notebooks 1993-1997
Dirty Documents by James Brook 1982
Writings by others 1992-1998
Typescript of Fifth Sun by Aymon de Sales 1993
Poems by Dan Stanciu (translated into English) 1994
Night Life - by Steven [Frattali?] 1997
Writings by Garret Caples 1997, undated
Poems by Stephen Ronan 1998
The Poetry of Philip Lamantia , by Roderick Iverson 2002
Non Accumulation as a Form of Abstraction: Finnegans Wake undated
Writings by Andrew Joron undated
Bed of Sphinxes publishing rights agreement 1996
Reviews of Bed of Sphinxes 1997
Artist royalty summary-Fantasy Inc. 1998
Poetry Reading Fliers 1999
Profile of Lamantia, by Garrett Caples undated
Miscellaneous articles 1985-1999
Photocopies of Clark Ashton Smith rarities 1988
Poetry publications 1982, 1993-1998
News clippings 1999-2000
Shrine of St. Francis of Assisi 1998-2000
Religious paintings, cards to Mary Lamantia 1957-1966
ACTUAL 1992
Miscellaneous 1992-2000
Materials removed from Lamantia Library- Egyptian currency, newspaper articles, etc. 1990s
Materials removed from Lamantia Library- calendars 1991-1997
Pull-Offs- A Vanishing Medium 1998
Seraphim City 2000
Ultimate Zone 2000
Notes on music heard on KUSF 1991
Notes- Project celebration, 9 poets 2001
Notes undated
Notebooks 1990
Notebook- St. Francis Shrine Bible class 2001
Poems by Philip Hacket 1993-2000
Typescript of Asia and Haiti by Will Alexander 1994-1995
Poems by Stephen Ronan 1996-1999
Poems by Ronnie Burk 1998, 2000, 2001
Prose by Ronnie Burk and Garrett Caples 2000
Poems by Lee Ballentine, reading copy of Seraphim City for Aaron Peskin's inauguration to the board of supervisors 2001
Further Impressions of Africa , review of Andre Joron's The Removes, by John Olson 2001
Songs of Being Here and Not Being Here by Massimiliano Chiamenti, drawing of Philip Lamantia 2001
Gaspard De La Nuit by Aloysius Bertrand, translation by Donald Sidney-Fryer 2000
Gaspard De La Nuit: A Sampler of Characteristic Pieces, translation by Donald Sidney-Fryer 2001
The Secret Art of Photomorphosis, by Azever Bogartte 2001
Thesis of Glen Motil 2001
Ashton Avenue-Earliest Memories, by Paul Nagy undated
Meltzer interview 1998
Interview by John Suiter, corrected by Lamantia 2000 December
New Man, New Beat, interview by Theresa Famolaro undated
Biographical information on Lamantia 2001
Website about Lamantia 2001
Poetry reading fliers 2001
Photocopy of Les Mystères des Dieux by Pierre Piobb 1909
Photocopies of A Selection from Gaspard of the Night 1964
The Eucharistic Life, by Rev. Mother Maria Auxilia of the Cross 1983
Religion-related articles 1995, 1998
Sheri Martinelli: A Modernist Muse , by Steven Moore 1998
Anti-war articles 1999
Article on Wallace Stevens and Ezra Pound 2001
Picture with Moving Parts by Rick London 2002
Photocopies of John Hoffman poems from Journey to the End 2002
Chapter on Lamantia by Rosemont 2004
Newspaper articles, book lists 2000-2001
Prints of paintings by Hu Xin 1998
Shrine of St. Francis of Assisi 1999-2001
The School of Pastoral Leadership 2000
Correspondence concerning Just Like That, video from Raman Rao 2002
Exhibition catalogue for, Semina Culture: Wallace Berman and His Circle, Santa Monica Museum of Art 2003
Miscellaneous 2000-2004
Handwritten notes undated
Poem, drawing by Wayne Kral 1974
Bianca by Robert Bohm 1974
Poems by "DW" 1991
Poems by Will Alexander 1991
Untitled typescript by Ronnie Burk 1992
Interview of Gerd Stern, Letter 1996, 1999
Interview of Gerd Stern 1996
Poems by Isidro Rodriguez 1998
Paper Storyboard by Massimiliano Chiamenti (in Italian) 1999
Invoking the Princely Laws, by Janelle Viglini 1999, 2003
Poems, prose by Walker Brents 2000
Typescript of Moving Still by Leonard Brink 2001
Dead Men Talking, by John Olson and Spencer Selby, photos of Lamantia 2001
Poems by Tony D'Arpino 2001
How I Came to Meet and Work with the Great French Poet Henri Michaux, by Louise Landes-Levi- Draft 2002
Poems by Will Alexander undated
"Concerning the Henbane Bird", by Will Alexander (incomplete) undated
"The Brimstone Boat" for Philip Lamantia, by Will Alexander undated
Laura Battiferri Ammannati- biographical information and poems undated
Photographs of artwork by Jose Ramon Sanchez 1969-1986
Health and medical-related papers 1977-1989
San Francisco Reader, letter from Walker Brents 2002
Miscellaneous 1974-2000
Symbolon poems, poems considered for Bed of Sphinxes? 1992-1993, 1998
Poems, worship hymns 1998
Poems, for Symbolon? 1998
Poems 1998-1999
Seraphim City, Ultimate Zone, Hidden Truth 1998-2000
Poems, notes 1999
Poems 1999 February
Account of dream about Breton, Burned Alive, other poems 1999-2000
Miscellaneous writings, The Catholic Worker newspaper 2000-2001
Poems 2000-2001
Poems, notes for Japanese translator 2001
Hyper-Sleep and other poems 2001
"Attempt at introduction to revision of Narcotica", other writings 2001
Poems and prose-poems 2001
Poems 2001
Poems 2001 May-June
"New Work" 2001 August-September
Photocopies of Triple V undated
Hommage to Simon Rodia, Birder's Lament undated
St. Teresa vignettes, other prose 2000
Notebooks 1998
Notebook, High Poet: Memoirs of Philip Lamantia 1998-1999
Notebooks 1998-1999
Notebook (1 page of writing) undated
Notebook undated
Poems by Gerd 1999
Poems by Garrett Caples undated
Miscellaneous 1999-2001
Materials removed from Lamantia Library- calendar with Lamantia quote, miscellaneous 2000s
Works by Rusel Jaque 1963-1982
Series 3 Personal Papers 1921-1990
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Nunzio and Mary Lamantia- personal documents 1921-1952
Nunzio Lamantia's World War I medals undated
Elementary school report cards 1934-1944
The Manual of Catholic Devotions, received at first communion 1939
Certificate of First Holy Communion 1939
Scrapbook 1938-1939
Scrapbook 1939-1941
Certificate of confirmation 1940
Philip Lamantia's diploma from the Bates School 1945
Passports 1952, 1967
Certificate of baptism 1955
Marriage and divorce papers 1956-1978
Ephemerides 1966-1990
Certificate of death- Mary Lamantia 1990
Tranchen family genealogy undated
Grade school ruler undated
Chinese zodiac calendar undated
Items removed from Philip Lamantia Library undated