Bed of Sphinxes: Selected Poems

Bed of Sphinxes offers a selection of poems from Philip Lamantia’s books and from recent work, representing five decades of impressive poetic achievement, from his early years of association with Surrealists-in-exile through the Beat Generation era to the present. The poems range from visionary apocalypse to a lyrical fusion with nature.

By turns nightmarish, erotic, hermetic, they create an astonishing world charged by Lamantia’s energy and imagination.

• Author
• Philip Lamantia

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 141

• Publisher
• City Lights Publishers

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9780872863200

• Genres
• poetry

• Release date
• 2001