"Yet the voice of Will Alexander, who here commemorates Lamantia in his
pluperfect poem The Brimstone Boat, rose hardly more than a quarter
century later... In this automatistically extended poem, we are witness
to the passage of energies from the older to the younger poet, as
Alexander charts Lamantia's life and writings across a Renaissance
globe... It is here as well that Alexander succeeds Lamantia, who died
in 2005, as America's greatest living surrealist poet--as the new poet
at the helm on the brimstone boat, on a voyage of 'perpetual
exploration.'"--ANDREW JORON The volume starts off with the 81 pages of
the title poem, then 14 pages for three shorter poems, followed by 19
pages devoted to a glossary, then 50 pages for the content of four
essays, and finally 3 pages of post-notes. On the cover, the
frontispiece, and the end page, are three works by the American
surrealist Marie Wilson; also included are eight pencil drawings by Will
Alexander and two large photographs of Lamantia and Alexander.