Philip Lamantia – “Rest in Peace, Al Capone” - As Read by the Rapturous San Francisco Renaissance Poet Himself at the Mad Mammoth Monster Poetry Reading, San Francisco, 1963

Summary: Philip's wife and editor Nancy Peters had this to say regarding the poetic architecture her husband designed: "He found in the narcotic night world a kind of modern counterpart to the gothic castle -- a zone of peril to be symbolically or existentially crossed.” Yes. Philip walked a dark beat.