A Novel Ursula K. Le Guin     1971     192p     5 x 8 In a future world racked by violence and environmental catastrophes, George Orr wakes up one day to discover that his dreams have the ability to alter reality. He seeks help from Dr. William Haber, a psychiatrist who immediately … Continue reading The Lathe of Heaven →

  A Cavalier History of Surrealism     Jules-François Dupuis     1977     131p     5 x 8 This pseudonymous account of surrealism by Raoul Vaneigem offers an answer to the question, “What was living and what was dead in Surrealism?” Though blistering in its criticism of surrealism’s artistic and political aporias, … Continue reading New Arrivals →

André Breton, Surrealism, Rebel Worker, SDS and the Seven Cities of Cibola Penelope Rosemont 2008 250p 5.5 x 8 Nationwide campus surveys show that students today regard the 1960s as the most attractive, creative, and effective decade of the past century. Above all, the Sixties introduced an inspiring new radicalism—in truth, many new radicalisms, a … Continue reading Dreams and Everyday Life →

And Other Poems Penelope Rosemont 1992 80p 5 x 8 Forty-eight dense, sparkling poems resounding with mad love of the truly wild. Includes drawings by Enrico Baj. $3.50-5 Other works involving penelope rosemont, poetry, surrealism, black swan, charles h. kerr

Antonin Artaud 2001 253p 5.5 x 8 “I am the man,” wrote Artaud, “who has best charted his inmost self.” Antonin Artaud was a poet who wanted to live in the infinite and asked that the human spirit burn in absolute freedom. To society, he was a madman. Artaud, however, was not insane but in … Continue reading Artaud Anthology →

Bureau of Public Secrets     1981     532p     7 x 9 In 1957 a few European avant-garde groups came together to form the Situationist International. Picking up where the dadaists and surrealists had left off, the situationists challenged people’s passive conditioning with carefully calculated scandals and the playful tactic of detournement. … Continue reading Situationist International Anthology →

A Surrealistic Novel in Collage Max Ernst     1934     208p     8 x 11 Accredited with inventing collage, this is one of Ernst’s finest example of it. All five original brochures reproduced in large, crisp and beautiful images. $8-20 Other works involving surrealism, pleasure, dreams, nightmare, violence, 1930s

Sean Arnold 2013 83p 5 x 8 ‘An Open Fall Window’ completes Arnold’s ‘Soliloquy From a Freight Yard…’ poetry book series. Filled to the brim with surrealist rebellion, rebellious surrealism and mad pride, ‘An Open Fall Window’ is sure to instruct and delight as a wholesale insurrection against the mundane and normalized visions of reality … Continue reading Soliloquy From A Freight Yard; An Open Fall Window →

Anarchists, IWWs, Surrealists, Situationists, & Provos in the 1960s Franklin Rosemont     2005     447p     6 x 9 While square critics derided them as “the left wing of the Beat Generation,” the multi-racial, working-class editorial groups of The Rebel Worker and its sister journal Heatwave in London became well known for … Continue reading Dancin’ in the Streets! →

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