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 Surrealist Women: An International Anthology, edited with introductions by Penelope Rosemont, is the first book in any language of writings by the many women who have taken part in organized surrealism from its origins to today. With over 300 selections by 97 women, this breakthrough collection is in fact the largest anthology devoted to surrealism ever published in English. (University of Texas Press, 1998).

Paul Garon's Blues and the Poetic Spirit (revised, expanded edition, City Lights Books, 1997), is a unique inquiry into blues and the mind, the blues as thought. A classic of blues literature, Blues and the Poetic Spirit uncovers the revolutionary and revelatory potential within the blues and the creative sources from which it springs.

Woman with Guitar: Memphis Minnie's Blues by Paul Garon and Beth Garon (Da Capo, 1992), is a biography of this exceptional blueswoman: oral history and an analysis of her songs based in feminist theory, psychoanalysis, and Black studies.

Surrealist Experiences:1001 Dawns, 221 Midnights by Penelope Rosemont (Black Swan Press, 2000) focuses on fortuitous encounters, including the author's adventures in the magnetic fields of "pure psychic automatism." The book collects articles and essays by Rosemont from surrealist journals throughout the world, plus several published now for the first time. Among the many illustrations are examples of her own automatistic discoveries: the Alchemigram, Landscapade and Prehensilhouette.

Under the heading "Tracts & Declarations" we shall regularly post the collective statements of the Surrealist Movement, starting with our tract against the World Trade Organization, Who Needs the WTO? In leaflet form, this statement was widely distributed in Seattle during the anti-WTO demonstrations.

"Poetry of the Future" offers a sampling of poems—and statements on poetry—by participants in the Surrealist Movement. This feature of our website will change frequently as we introduce new poems and new poets.

"Images of Desire" reveals new surrealist work in the realm of painting, drawing, collage, photography and other "visual arts." Every three months it will feature the work of a particular individual active in the Surrealist Movement. Our inaugural exhibit focuses on the collages of Jan Hathaway.

"Surrealist Games" highlights collective play as a major form of surrealist research. Currently featured is the game Time-Travelers' Potlatch.

In "The Surrealist Review of Books" participants in the Surrealist Movement comment on new or recent books and pamphlets of interest from the surrealist point of view. Similarly,"The Surrealist Review of Periodicals" examines current journals, magazines, newspapers and zines.

In the not-too-distant future we shall also begin a critical survey of other websites concerning surrealism.

Black Swan Press/Surrealist Editions: A complete list of currently available publications of the Surrealist Movement in the U.S., plus a selection of Surrealist and other books of revolutionary importance published by other publishers but also available from Black Swan

Related reading

• André Breton, "Conversations: The Autobiography of Surrealism" (Gallimard 1952) (Paragon House English rev. ed. 1993). ISBN 1569249709.
• "What is Surrealism?: Selected Writings of André Breton" (edited and with an Introduction by Franklin Rosemont). ISBN 0873488229.
• André Breton, "Manifestoes of Surrealism" containing the 1^st, 2^nd and introduction to a possible 3^rd Manifesto, and in addition the novel "The Soluble Fish" and political aspects of the surrealist movement. ISBN 0472179004.
• Surrealist Subversions: The Surrealist Movement in the United States (edited with an introduction by Ron Sakolsky). ISBN 1570271224.
• Gerard Durozoi, History of the Surrealist Movement (translated by Alison Anderson, University of Chicago Press). ISBN 0226174115.
• Rosemont, Franklin, Surrealism and Its Popular Accomplices. San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books (1980). ISBN 087286121X.
• Brotchie, Alastair and Gooding, Mel, eds. A Book of Surrealist Games. Berkeley, CA: Shambhala (1995). ISBN 1570620849.

See also

• Aerography
• Blue Feathers
• Camus, Albert
• Cacophony Society
• Cut-up technique
• Dada
• Exquisite corpse game
• Fluxus
• Fumage
• Giorgio Chirico
• Hysterical realism
• mail art
• Paranoiac-critical method
• Post-surrealism
• Situationism
• surautomatism

External links

• Manifesto of Surrealism by André Breton
• "What is Surrealism?" Lecture by Breton, Brussels 1934
• Surrealist Groups
• Czech and Slovak Surrealist Group
• GROUPE DE PARIS DU MOUVEMENT SURREALISTE
• Grupo Surrealista de Cantabria (Cantabria Surrealist Group)
• Honolulu Surrealist Group
• Houston Surrealist Group
• Magneticfields.org - Surrealists in Minnesota
• Portland Surrealist Group http://www.zazie.at/Portland/00_WebPages/Index.htm
• Surrealism in the Netherlands (Dutch)
• The Surrealist Movement in Portugal
• The Surrealist Movement in Serbia

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