Franklin Rosemont

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Franklin Rosemont (born October 2, 1943) was co-founder of the Chicago Surrealist Group. He was born in Chicago, Illinois, U.S..

Contents 1 Early life 2 Career 3 Publications 4 References

[edit] Early life

His father, Henry, was a labor activist, and mother, Sally, a jazz musician.[1]

[edit] Career

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 (writing a forward for Max Ernst and Alchemy: A Magician in Search of Myth) and of the radical labor movement in America, for instance, writing a biogaphy of Joe Hill.

[edit] Publications

He is the author of the poetry collections The Morning of a Machine Gun: Twenty Poems & Documents. Profusely Illustrated By the Author., The Apple of the Automatic Zebra's Eye[2], and Penelope: A Poem, as well as 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.

[edit] References

• Review

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NAME	Rosemont, Franklin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION	Poet and co-founder of the Chicago Surrealist Group
DATE OF BIRTH	2 October 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH	Chicago, Illinois, United States
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH