Tuesday, October 24, 2006
In Honor of Api....
October 23, 2006
Philip Lamantia
Vital Conflagirations
It's true that I don't know how to really live; I have never completely gotten the hang of life, even though the "Red phase" of the "Great Work" - radiating a splendor signifying, for some of us, all that perfects the gifts of the Marvelous for humanity - haunts the blackening thought of the absence of a certain social oxygen within present-day life. For it is only in the sight of the most extravagant utopias (well-seasoned by the repeated claw-marks of potential power splashing on a pinch of high voltage momentarily negating the daily horrors of attempted life) and only by absolute confidence in the surpassing fire love shall not fail to collectively materialize in the carbonization of the libertines of liberty, that I dream of the living emancipation kindled from a preserving fire of which the surpassing conflagration is the permanent, generating agent.
From ARSENAL: SURREALIST SUBVERSION 4 (1989)
Philip Lamantia
Vital Conflagirations
It's true that I don't know how to really live; I have never completely gotten the hang of life, even though the "Red phase" of the "Great Work" - radiating a splendor signifying, for some of us, all that perfects the gifts of the Marvelous for humanity - haunts the blackening thought of the absence of a certain social oxygen within present-day life. For it is only in the sight of the most extravagant utopias (well-seasoned by the repeated claw-marks of potential power splashing on a pinch of high voltage momentarily negating the daily horrors of attempted life) and only by absolute confidence in the surpassing fire love shall not fail to collectively materialize in the carbonization of the libertines of liberty, that I dream of the living emancipation kindled from a preserving fire of which the surpassing conflagration is the permanent, generating agent.
From ARSENAL: SURREALIST SUBVERSION 4 (1989)
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