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Franklin Rosemont

Born

in Chicago, The United States

October 02, 1943

Died

April 12, 2009

Genre

Politics, Biographies & Memoirs, Poetry

Influences

Andre Breton

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Franklin Rosemont was co-founder of the Chicago Surrealist Group. He was born in Chicago, Illinois. His father, Henry, was a labor activist. His mother, Sally, was a jazz musician.
He edited & wrote an introduction for What is Surrealism?: Selected Writings of Andre Breton, & edited Rebel Worker, Arsenal/Surrealist Subversion, The Rise & Fall of the DIL Pickle: Jazz-Age Chicago's Wildest & Most Outrageously Creative Hobohemian Nightspot & Juice is Stranger than Friction: Selected Writings of T-Bone Slim. With his wife, Penelope Rosemont, & Paul Garon he edited The Forecast is Hot!. His work has been deeply concerned with both the history of surrealism (writing a forward for Max Ernst & Alchemy: A Magician in Search of Myth) & of the radica ...more

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Average rating: 4.24 · 587 ratings · 60 reviews · 53 distinct works • Similar authors

	Joe Hill: The IWW & the Making of a Revolutionary Workingclass Counterculture by Franklin Rosemont, David R. Roediger (Introduction) 4.16 avg rating — 57 ratings — published 2003 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Black, Brown, & Beige: Surrealist Writings from Africa and the Diaspora (The Surrealist Revolution) by Franklin Rosemont (Editor), Robin D.G. Kelley (Editor) 4.21 avg rating — 39 ratings — published 2009 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dancin' in the Streets! Anarchists, IWWs, Surrealists, Situationists and Provos in the 1960s as Recorded in the Pages of The Rebel Worker and Heatwave (Sixties Series 3) by Franklin Rosemont (editor), Charles Radcliffe (Editor) 4.56 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 2005 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Arsenal: Surrealist Subversion, No. 4 4.33 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 1989 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Forecast Is Hot!: Tracts and Other Collective Declarations of the Surrealist Movement in the United States 1966-1976 by Franklin Rosemont (Editor), Penelope Rosemont (Editor), Paul Garon (Editor) 4.40 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 1997 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Revolution in the Service of the Marvelous 4.15 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2003	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Surrealism and Its Popular Accomplices 4.73 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 1980 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Rise and Fall of the Dil Pickle 4.27 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2003 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	An Open Entrance to the Shut Palace of Wrong Numbers 4.20 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2003	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lamps Hurled at the Stunning Algebra of Ants 4.50 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1990 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Books cannot be killed by fire. People die, but books never die. No man and no force can take from the world the books that embody man's eternal fight against tyranny. In this war, we know, books are weapons.”
― Franklin Rosemont

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