From Bed of Sphinxes: New and Selected Poems (1997)

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Foreword xix
4. Acknowledgments xxi
5. High Poet: The Life and Work of Philip Lamantia xxiii
6. Editorial Note lxv
7. Touch of the Marvelous (1943– 1949) 1
8. From Erotic Poems (1946) 31
9. Poems 1943–1955 47
10. From Tau (1955) 61
11. Ekstasis (1959) 75
12. From Narcotica (1959) 105
13. Poems 1955–1962 113
14. Destroyed Works Typescript (1948–1960) 155
15. Destroyed Works (1962) 177
16. Poems 1963–1964 209
17. From Selected Poems (1967) 223
18. Poems 1965–1970 245
19. The Blood of the Air (1970) 255
20. Poems 1970–1980 283
21. Becoming Visible (1981) 293
22. Poems 1981–1985 331
23. Meadowlark West (1986) 341
24. Poems 1986–1993 391
25. From Bed of Sphinxes: New and Selected Poems (1997) 399
26. From Symbolon (1998– 2001) 417
27. Selected Bibliography 431
28. Index of Titles 433