Mezue ahịrịokwu na-esonụ: Lamantia bụ otu n'ime ndị na-ede uri mgbe Agha Worldwa nke Abụọ gachara ugbu a a na-akpọ San Francisco Renaissance, ma mesịa soro ndị na-ede uri San Francisco Beat Generation na Surrealist Movement na United States. Ọ nọ n'ụgwọ ahụ na San Francisco
Ụlọ ihe nkiri Six Gallery n'October 7, 1955, mgbe onye na-ede uri bụ́ Allen Ginsberg gụrụ uri ya bụ́ "Howl" na nke mbụ ya. N'oge a, Lamantia họọrọ ịgụ uri nke John Hoffman, bụ́ enyi ya nke nwụrụ n'oge na-adịbeghị anya. Nchịkọta uri Hoffman "Njem na njedebe" (nke gụnyere uri ndị Lamantia gụrụ na Six Gallery) bụ nke City Lights Bookstore bipụtara na 2008, jikọtara ya na "Tau", nke Lamantia, nke na-esite na etiti afọ iri ise. E bipụtaghị "Tau" n'oge ndụ Lamantia.