Franklin Rosemont
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Franklin Rosemont (born October 2, 1943) was co-founder of the Surrealist Movement in the United States. He was born in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
His father, Henry, was a labor activist, and mother, Sally, a jazz musician.[1]
He edited and wrote an introduction for What is Surrealism?: Selected Writings of Andre Breton, and edited Rebel Worker, Arsenal/Surrealist Subversion, The Rise & Fall of the DIL Pickle: Jazz-Age Chicago's Wildest & Most Outrageously Creative Hobohemian Nightspot and Juice Is Stranger Than Friction: Selected Writings of T-Bone Slim. With Penelope Rosemont and Paul Garon he edited The Forecast is Hot!. His work has been deeply concerned with both the history of surrealism and of the radical labor movement in America.
He is the author of the poetry collection The Morning of a Machine Gun: Twenty Poems & Documents. Profusely Illustrated By the Author. and An Open Entrance to the Shut Palace of Wrong Numbers, a book that explores the phenomenon of "wrong numbers" from a surrealist perspective, which was published by Black Swan Press in 2003.
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