Kammala jumla mai zuwa: Lamantia na ɗaya daga cikin mawaƙa na bayan Yaƙin Duniya na II yanzu wani lokacin ana kiransa San Francisco Renaissance, kuma daga baya ya shiga cikin mawaƙa na San Francisco Beat Generation da Surrealist Movement a Amurka. Ya kasance a kan lissafin a San Francisco ta
Six Gallery a ranar 7 ga Oktoba, 1955, lokacin da mawaƙin Allen Ginsberg ya karanta waƙar "Howl" a karon farko. A wannan taron Lamantia ya zaɓi ya karanta waƙoƙin John Hoffman, abokinsa wanda ya mutu ba da daɗewa ba. Tarin waƙoƙin Hoffman "Tafiya zuwa Ƙarshe" (wanda ya haɗa da waƙoƙin da Lamantia ya karanta a Gidan Hotuna shida) an buga shi ta City Lights Bookstore a 2008, an haɗa shi tare da "Tau", na Lamantia kansa wanda ya kasance daga tsakiyar shekarun hamsin. "Tau" ya kasance ba a buga shi ba a lokacin rayuwar Lamantia.