EKSTASIS - WALLACE BERMAN'S COPY, INSCRIBED TO HIS BROTHER-IN-LAW
San Francisco: The Auerhahn Press, 1959. First Edition. An extraordinary copy of the Italian-American poet's second collection of verse. "For California's poetry community of the 1950s and 1960s – and for Wallace Berman, in particular – Philip Lamantia served as a direct link to European Surrealism. More than any poet..... More