{{unreferenced}} '''Jacques Baron''' (1905 - 1986) was a French poet, whose first collection of poems was published in Aventure in 1921. Although he was initially involved with the Dada movement, he became a founding member of the Surrealist movement following his meeting with André Breton in 1921, and contributed to La Révolution surréaliste . In 1927, like many of his contemporaries, Baron joined the Cercle Communiste Démocratique . Although fascinated by dream-like states of the nomadic unconscious and other imaginary worlds of the “marvelous”, a dispute with Breton in 1929 got him expelled from the movement. Baron became associated with Bataille and DOCUMENTS, in which he published a short essay on “Crustaceans” for the Critical Dictionary (1929, issue 6), an article on the sculptor “Jacques Lipchitz” (1930, issue 1), and a poem dedicated to Picasso “Flames” (1930, issue 3). He later collaborated on a number of reviews such as Le Voyage en Grèce, La Critique Sociale and Minotaure, Baron also wrote a novel, Charbon de mer (1935), a mémoire, L’An 1 du Surréalisme (1969), and a collection of poems, L’Allure poétique (1973). {{France-writer-stub}} Baron, Jacques Baron, Jacques Fr:Jacques_Baron