List of Surrealist poets

This is a list of Surrealist poets , known for writing material within the Surrealist cultural movement that began in the early 1920s.

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Surrealist poets

• Will Alexander (born 1948) - American Surrealist poet, novelist, essayist, playwright
• Louis Aragon (1897–1982) - French poet who co-founded the surrealist review Littérature ^[1]
• Braulio Arenas (1913–1988) - Chilean poet and writer, founder of the surrealist Mandrágora group
• Antonin Artaud (1896–1948) - French poet, essayist, and dramatist who created the "Theatre of Cruelty"
• André Breton (1896–1966) - French poet and writer known as the leader and principal theorist of surrealism
• Jorge Cáceres (1923–1949) - Chilean poet and artist, a member of La Mandrágora, a Chilean Surrealist group
• Garrett Caples (born 1972) - American poet and former music and arts journalist
• Aimé Césaire (1913–2008) - French and Martinican Surrealist poet and a founder of the Negritude movement
• Teofilo Cid (1914–1964) - Chilean poet, member of La Mandrágora surrealist group
• Andrei Codrescu (born 1946) - Romanian-American poet, novelist, screenwriter, NPR commentator
• René Crevel (1900–1935) - French writer
• René Daumal (1908–1944) - French spiritual para-surrealist writer and poet
• Robert Desnos (1900–1945) - French poet and member of the French resistance against the Nazis
• Paul Éluard (1895–1952) - French poet
• Andreas Embirikos (1901–1975) - Greek poet and psychoanalyst
• Nikos Engonopoulos (1907–1985) - Greek poet and painter
• David Gascoyne (1916–2001) - English poet and translator
• Enrique Gómez Correa (1915–1995) - Chilean poet, lawyer and diplomat
• Andrew Joron – American poet, three-time winner of the Rhysling Award
• George Kalamaras - American poet and professor, former poet laureate of Indiana
• Noelle Kocot (born 1969) - American poet
• Philip Lamantia (1927–2005) - American poet and educator
• Michel Leiris (1901–1990) - French writer
• Mary Stanley Low (1912–2007) - British-Cuban surrealist poet, artist and Latin teacher
• Joyce Mansour (1928–1986) - Egyptian-French author and poet
• Ciaran O'Driscoll (born 1943) - Irish surrealist poet
• John Olson (born 1947) - American Surrealist poet and novelist
• Valentine Penrose (1898–1978) - French surrealist poet, author, and collagist
• Benjamin Péret (1899–1959) - French poet and a founder of the French Surrealist movement
• Alejandra Pizarnik (1936-1972) - Argentinian poet
• Gisèle Prassinos (1920–2015) - French writer
• Franklin Rosemont (1943–2009) - American poet, artist, historian, street speaker, and co-founder of the Chicago Surrealist Group
• Penelope Rosemont (born 1942) - American visual artists, writer, publisher, and social activist
• Tomaž Šalamun (1941–2014) - Slovenian surrealist poet
• Philippe Soupault (1897–1990) - French writer and poet, novelist, critic, and political activist
• James Tate (1943–2015) - American Surrealist poet and Pulitzer Prize winner
• Tristan Tzara (1896–1963) - Romanian French avant-garde poet, essayist and performance artist
• César Vallejo (1892–1938) - Peruvian poet, writer, playwright, and journalist
• Jeffrey Cyphers Wright (born 1951) - American poet and critic
• Kansuke Yamamoto (1914–1987) – Japanese poet and photographer; promoted Surrealist and avant-garde ideas in Japan through his poetry and photographs. ^[2]
• John Yau (born 1950) - American poet and critic
• Dean Young (1955–2022) - American poet and poet-laureate for Texas in 2014

See also

• Category:Surrealist poets
• Category:Surrealist writers

References

1. Martin Travers (2001). European Literature from Romanticism to Postmodernism: A Reader in Aesthetic Practice. A&C Black. pp. 176–. ISBN   978-0-8264-4748-7.
2. Keller, Judith; Maddox, Amanda, eds. (2013). Japan's Modern Divide: The Photographs of Hiroshi Hamaya and Kansuke Yamamoto. Los Angeles: Getty Publications. ISBN   978-1-60606-132-9.