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Surrealist 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 s ...

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s, known for writing material within the Surrealist

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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) -

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an poet and writer, founder of the surrealist '' Mandrágora'' group *

Antonin Artaud Antoine Maria Joseph Paul Artaud (; ; 4September 18964March 1948), better known as Antonin Artaud, was a French artist who worked across a variety of media. He is best known for his writings, as well as his work in the theatre and cinema. Widely ...

(1896–1948) - French poet, essayist, and dramatist who created the " Theatre of Cruelty" *

André Breton André Robert Breton (; ; 19 February 1896 – 28 September 1966) was a French writer and poet, the co-founder, leader, and principal theorist of surrealism. His writings include the first ''Surrealist Manifesto'' (''Manifeste du surréalisme'') ...

(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 Aimé Fernand David Césaire (; ; 26 June 1913 – 17 April 2008) was a French poet, author, and politician from Martinique. He was "one of the founders of the Négritude movement in Francophone literature" and coined the word in French. He ...

(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 * Garrett Caples (born 1972) - American poet and former music and arts journalist * Teofilo Cid (1914–1964) - Chilean poet, member of La Mandrágora surrealist group * René Crevel (1900–1935) - French writer * René Daumal (1908–1944) - French spiritual para-surrealist writer and poet * Robert Desnos (1900–1945) - French poet and member of the French resistance against the Nazis * Paul Éluard (1895–1952) - French poet * Andreas Embirikos (1901–1975) - Greek poet and psychoanalyst * Nikos Engonopoulos (1907–1985) - Greek poet and painter * David Gascoyne (1916–2001) - English poet and translator * Enrique Gómez Correa (1915–1995) - Chilean poet, lawyer and diplomat * Andrew Joron – American poet, three-time winner of the

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* George Kalamaras - American poet and professor, former poet laureate of

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* Noelle Kocot (born 1969) - American poet * Philip Lamantia (1927–2005) - American poet and educator * Michel Leiris (1901–1990) - French writer * Mary Stanley Low (1912–2007) - British-Cuban political activist, Trotskyist, surrealist poet, artist and Latin teacher * Joyce Mansour (1928–1986) - Egyptian-French author and poet * Ciaran O'Driscoll (born 1943) - Irish surrealist poet * John Olson (born 1947) - American Surrealist poet and novelist * Valentine Penrose (1898–1978) - French surrealist poet, author, and collagist * Benjamin Péret (1899–1959) - French poet and a founder of the French Surrealist movement * Gisèle Prassinos (1920–2015) - French writer * Franklin Rosemont (1943–2009) - American poet, artist, historian, street speaker, and co-founder of the

Chicago Surrealist Group The Chicago Surrealist Group was founded in Chicago, Illinois, in July 1966 by Franklin Rosemont, Penelope Rosemont, Bernard Marszalek, Tor Faegre and Robert Green after a trip to Paris in 1965, during which they were in contact with André Breto ...

* Penelope Rosemont (born 1942) - American visual artists, writer, publisher, and social activist * Tomaž Šalamun (1941–2014) - Slovenian surrealist poet * Philippe Soupault (1897–1990) - French writer and poet, novelist, critic, and political activist * James Tate (1943–2015) - American Surrealist poet and

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winner *

Tristan Tzara Tristan Tzara (; ; ; born Samuel or Samy Rosenstock, also known as S. Samyro; – 25 December 1963) was a Romanian and French avant-garde poet, essayist and performance artist. Also active as a journalist, playwright, literary and art critic, c ...

(1896–1963) - Romanian French avant-garde poet, essayist and performance artist * César Vallejo (1892–1938) - Peruvian poet, writer, playwright, and journalist * Jeffrey Cyphers Wright (born 1951) - American poet and critic *

John Yau John Yau (born June 5, 1950) is an American poet and critic who lives in New York City. He received his B.A. from Bard College in 1972 and his M.F.A. from Brooklyn College in 1978. He has published over 50 books of poetry, artists' books, ficti ...

(born 1950) - American poet and critic * Dean Young (1955–2022) - American poet and poet-laureate for Texas in 2014

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