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Franklin Rosemont
Rediscover the most insightful and incendiary cultural commentaries from a leading figure in the revival of Surrealism.
Surrealism, Bugs Bunny, and the Blues is a collection of Franklin Rosemont's writings…
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A monumental work, expansive in scope, and not only the life, times, and culture of that most famous of the Wobblies (songwriter, poet, hobo, thinker, humorist, martyr), but crucially -…
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Cultural Writing. Essays. REVOLUTION IN THE SERVICE OF THE MARVELOUS contains twenty essays by one of contemporary surrealism’s major poets and theorists, Chicago Surrealist Group co-founder Franklin Rosemont. These essays…
A working stuff, a hobo, and an irreconcilable revolutionist…second only to Joe Hill as the IWW’s most popular songwriter, T-Bone Slim incontestably was the Wobblie’s greatest man of letters. For…
Cultural Writing. Like everyone else, you dial and receive wrong numbers. But what do you make of them? And what do they make of you? Part treatise on umor (humor…
Andre Breton
Writings of the best-known leader of the Surrealism movement.
In November, we remember! A new edition of a long out-of-print classic honoring the greatest flashpoint in American labor history.
At head of title: Critical theory at its Bugs Bunnyist best! Dialectics in the spirit of the Incredible Hulk!
Franklin Rosemont,Jacques Vache
Literary Nonfiction. Fiction. Biography. Conscripted into the French Army in World War One, Jacques Vache soon became not only the unsurpassed champion of Desertion from Within, but also the master…
A monumental work, expansive in scope, covering the life, times, and culture of that most famous of the Wobblies-songwriter, poet, hobo, thinker, humorist, martyr-Joe Hill. It is a journey into…
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Originally published in 1964 and long out of print, Kornbluh’s Rebel Voices remains by far the biggest and best source on IWW history, fiction, songs, art and lore. Besides the…
The first collection to document the extensive participation of people of African descent-including poets, painters, sculptors, theorists, critics, dancers, and playwrights-in the international surrealist movement over the past 75 years.
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Mary E Marcy
A leading figure in the Left Wing of the Socialist Party during the First World War, Mary E Marcy (1877-1922) was managing editor f the International Socialist Review, the most…
Benjamin Peret
This collection is based on the pioneering anthology of Peretas writings that first appeared in August 1970 in the SDS journal Radical America, introduced by Franklin Rosemont. This new, expanded…
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M. E. Warlick
Taking a wholly different perspective on Max Ernst and alchemy, the author persuasively demonstrates that the artist had a profound and abiding interest in alchemical philosophy and often used alchemical…
The secret history of Chicago. From the South Sideas Hyde Park, to the North Beach of Rogers Park, with sidelights in the suburbs and notable stop-overs at Bughouse Square, this…
