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Surrealist Poets
This is a list of Surrealist poets, known for writing material within the Surrealist cultural movement that began in the early 1920s. Surrealist poets * Will Alexander (born 1948) - American Surrealist poet, novelist, essayist, playwright * Louis Aragon (1897–1982) - French poet who co-founded the surrealist review '' Littérature'' * Braulio Arenas (1913–1988) - Chilean poet and writer, founder of the surrealist '' Mandrágora'' group * Antonin Artaud (1896–1948) - French poet, essayist, and dramatist who created the " Theatre of Cruelty" * André Breton (1896–1966) - French poet and writer known as the leader and principal theorist of surrealism * Jorge Cáceres (1923–1949) - Chilean poet and artist, a member of La Mandrágora, a Chilean Surrealist group * Aimé Césaire (1913–2008) - French and Martinican Surrealist poet and a founder of the Negritude movement * Andrei Codrescu (born 1946) - Romanian-American poet, novelist, screenwriter, NPR commentator * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Surrealism
Surrealism is an art movement, art and cultural movement that developed in Europe in the aftermath of World War I in which artists aimed to allow the unconscious mind to express itself, often resulting in the depiction of illogical or dreamlike scenes and ideas. Its intention was, according to leader André Breton, to "resolve the previously contradictory conditions of dream and reality into an absolute reality, a super-reality", or ''surreality.'' It produced works of painting, writing, photography, Theatre of Cruelty, theatre, Surrealist cinema, filmmaking, Surrealist music, music, Surreal humour, comedy and other media as well. Works of Surrealism feature the element of surprise, unexpected juxtapositions and ''Non sequitur (literary device), non sequitur''. However, many Surrealist artists and writers regard their work as an expression of the philosophical movement first and foremost (for instance, of the "pure psychic automatic behavior, automatism" Breton speaks of in the fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Garrett Caples
Garrett Caples (born 1972) is an American poet and former music journalism, music and arts journalism, arts journalist. Born in Lawrence, Massachusetts, he currently lives in San Francisco, California, after fifteen years in Oakland. An editor at City Lights Books, Caples curates the new American poetry series, City Lights Spotlight. From 2005 to 2014, he wrote on hip hop, literature, and painting for the San Francisco Bay Guardian, and has written fiction on unusual sexual practices, like omorashi. As a hip hop journalist, Caples has been the first write on various Bay Area rappers, including J Stalin, D-Lo, Eddi Projex, Traxamillion, Droop-E, and Shady Nate. He's also written cover stories on more established stars like E-40, Mac Dre, Mistah FAB, Husalah (Mob Figaz), and The Jacka (Mob Figaz). Significantly, his interview with Shock-G of Digital Underground announced the end of that classic hip hop crew. Caples is the author of ''The Garrett Caples Reader'' (Angle Press/Black ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Kalamaras
George Kalamaras is an American poet and educator. He is Professor of English at Purdue University, Fort Wayne, Indiana, where he has taught since 1990. He has published nineteen collections of poetry, twelve of which are full-length, including ''Kingdom of Throat-Stuck Luck'', the winner of the Elixir Press Poetry Prize (2011), and ''The Theory and Function of Mangoes'' (2000), the winner of the Four Way Books Intro Series. His poetry has been described, as Surrealist. Personal life Kalamaras was born in Chicago and grew up in Cedar Lake, Indiana. He graduated from Indiana University Bloomington in 1980. He earned a master’s in English from Colorado State University and a PhD in English from University at Albany, SUNY. Between 2014 and 2016 Kalamaras was poet laureate of the American state of Indiana. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rhysling Award
__NOTOC__ The Rhysling Awards are an annual award given for the best speculative poetry, science fiction, fantasy, or horror poem of the year. The award name was dubbed by Andrew Joron in reference to a character in a science fiction story: the blind poet Rhysling, in Robert A. Heinlein's short story "The Green Hills of Earth".David Langford"Rhysling Award."''The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction'', 3rd edition (online). Ed. John Clute, David Langford, and Peter Nicholls. 2013. Accessed 19 February 2013 The award is given in two categories: "Best Long Poem", for works of 50 or more lines, and "Best Short Poem", for works of 49 or fewer lines. The nominees for each year's Rhysling Awards are chosen by the members of the Science Fiction Poetry Association (SFPA). Each member may nominate one work for each of the categories. Until 2022, all nominated works were compiled into an anthology called ''The Rhysling Anthology'', and members of the Association would then vote on the final winne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrew Joron
Andrew Joron (born March 6, 1955) is an American writer of experimental poetry, speculative fiction, and lyrical and critical essays. He began by writing science fiction poetry. Joron's later poetry, combining scientific and philosophical ideas with the sonic properties of language, has been compared to the work of the Russian Futurist Velimir Khlebnikov. Joron currently lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. In fall 2014, Joron joined the faculty of the Creative Writing Department at San Francisco State University. He has won the Rhysling Award three times: for Best Long Poem in 1980 and 1986, and for Best Short Poem in 1978; and the Gertrude Stein Award twice, in 1996 and 2006. Joron's poetry is included in two W. W. Norton anthologies: ''American Hybrid'' (2009), edited by Cole Swensen and David St. John, and ''Postmodern American Poetry'' (2013), edited by Paul Hoover. Joron is the translator, from the German, of the Marxist-Utopian philosopher Ernst Bloch’s ''Literary ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Enrique Gómez Correa
Enrique Gómez Correa (1915, in Talca – 1995, in Santiago de Chile) was a Chilean poet, lawyer and diplomat. Biography He studied at the Lyceum for Boys at Abate Molina de Talca, his hometown, where he met Braulio Arenas and Teófilo Cid, with whom he founded the Chilean surrealist '' Mandrágora'' group on 18 July 1938, at the University of Chile. His thesis to obtain his lawyer diploma was entitled ''Sociology of Madness'', published in 1942, which was also influenced by surrealism. It addressed the issue of mental illness and the approach of madness in society, while also articulating the judicial, social and poetic aspects of this condition. Gomez Correa went to Paris, where he lived from 1949 to 1951 with the main members of French surrealism. He established links with André Breton and especially with the painters Jacques Hérold and René Magritte. In 1948, he wrote ''The spectrum of René Magritte'' as a tribute to the Belgian painter. Gomez Correa was friends with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Gascoyne
David Gascoyne (10 October 1916 – 25 November 2001) was an English poet associated with the Surrealist movement, in particular the British Surrealist Group. Additionally, he translated work by French surrealist poets. Early life and surrealism Gascoyne was born in Harrow, the eldest of three sons of Leslie Noel Gascoyne (1886–1969), a bank clerk, and his wife, Winifred Isobel, née Emery (1890–1972). His mother, a niece of the actors Cyril Maude and Winifred Emery, was one of two young women present when the dramatist W. S. Gilbert died in his lake at Grim's Dyke in May 1911. Gascoyne grew up in England and Scotland, attending Salisbury Cathedral School and London's Regent Street Polytechnic. He spent some of the early 1930s in Paris. Gascoyne's first book, ''Roman Balcony and Other Poems'', appeared in 1932, when he was 16. Reputation In a poetic field dominated by W. H. Auden and other more political and social poets, the surrealist group tended to be overlook ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nikos Engonopoulos
Nikos Engonopoulos (; October 21, 1907 – October 31, 1985) was a Greek painter and poet. He is one of the most important members of "Generation of the '30s", as well as a major representative of the surrealist movement in Greece. His work as a writer also includes critique and essays. Biography Nikos Engonopoulos was born in Athens in 1907 and was the second son of Panagiotis and Errietti (Henrietta) Engonopoulos. During the summer of 1914, when Engonopoulos' family went on a trip to Constantinople were obliged to settle there, due to the outbreak of World War I. In 1923, he was enrolled in a lycée in Paris, where he studied for a period of four years. After his return to Greece, he joined the Army in order to fulfil the mandatory military service. Later on, he worked as a translator in a bank and as a secretary at the University of Athens. From 1930 to 1933 Engonopoulos worked as a designer in the Urban Planning Department of the Greek Ministry of Public Works. In 1932 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andreas Embirikos
Andreas Embirikos (; ''Andréas Empeiríkos''; September 2, 1901 – August 3, 1975) was a Greek surrealist poet, writer, photographer, and one of the first Greek psychoanalysts. As a writer, he emerged from the Generation of the '30s and is considered one of the most important representatives of Greek surrealism. He studied psychoanalysis in France and was the first to practice it as a profession in Greece in the years 1935–1951. Out of his entire literary work, his first collection of poetry, titled '' Ypsikaminos'', stands out as the first purely surrealist Greek text. Among his prose works, his bold erotic novel '' The Great Eastern'' was completed over a period of several decades becoming the lengthiest modern Greek novel. Described as Embirikos' "lifework", It was received with both praise and criticism for its libertine nature and highly erotic content. A large part of Embirikos' work was published well after his death. Life Embirikos was born in 1901 in Bră ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Éluard
Paul Éluard (), born Eugène Émile Paul Grindel (; 14 December 1895 – 18 November 1952), was a French poet and one of the founders of the Surrealist movement. In 1916, he chose the name Paul Éluard, a matronymic borrowed from his maternal grandmother. He adhered to Dadaism and became one of the pillars of Surrealism by opening the way to artistic action politically committed to the Communist Party. During World War II, he was the author of several poems against Nazism that circulated clandestinely. He became known worldwide as The Poet of ''Freedom'' and is considered the most gifted of French surrealist poets. Biography Early life Éluard was born on 14 December 1895 in Saint-Denis, Seine-Saint-Denis, the son of Eugène Clément Grindel and wife Jeanne-Marie née Cousin. His father was an accountant when Paul was born but soon opened a real-estate agency. His mother was a seamstress. Around 1908, the family moved to Paris, rue Louis Blanc. Éluard attended the local sch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Desnos
Robert Desnos (; 4 July 1900 – 8 June 1945) was a French poet who played a key role in the Surrealist movement. Early life Robert Desnos was born in Paris on 4 July 1900, the son of a licensed dealer in game and poultry at the '' Halles'' market. Desnos attended commercial college, and started work as a clerk. He also worked as an amanuensis for journalist Jean de Bonnefon. After that he worked as a literary columnist for the newspaper '' Paris-Soir''. Career The first poems by Desnos to appear in print were published in 1917 in ''La Tribune des Jeunes'' (Platform for Youth) and in 1919 in the avant-garde review ''Le Trait d'union'' (Hyphen), and also the same year in the Dadaist magazine '' Littérature''. In 1922 he published his first book, a collection of surrealistic aphorisms, with the title Rrose Sélavy (the name adopted as an "alternative persona" by the avant-garde French artist Marcel Duchamp; a pun on "Eros, c'est la vie"). In 1919 he met the poet Benjamin P� ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
