Philip Lamantia

While in New York, Lamantia became friends with Carl Solomon and Allen Ginsberg and several other members of the crowd that would later create the Beat movement. Lamantia was first up to read at the Six Gallery poetry reading in 1955. Instead of reading his own works that night, he read several poems by a friend, John Hoffman, who'd recently died in Mexico, apparently of a peyote overdose.

Now classified, however incorrectly, as a Beat poet, Lamantia published several popular books of surrealist poetry, and has remained active in avant-garde circles.

Here's a fairly incomplete list of Lamantia's published works.