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.
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
- Aimé Césaire (1913-2008) - French and Martinican Surrealist poet and a founder of the Negritude movement
- Andrei Codrescu (born 1946) - Romanian-American poet, novelist, screenwriter, NPR commentator
- Garrett Caples (born 1972) - American poet and former music and arts journalist
- Teofilo Cid (1914 – 1964) - Chilean poet, member of La Mandrágora surrealist group
- 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
- David Gascoyne (1916 – 2001) - English poet and translator
- Enrique Gómez Correa (1915 – 1995) - Chilean poet, lawyer and diplomat
- Helen Ivory (born 1969) - English poet, artist and editor
- 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
- Joyce Mansour (1928 – 1986) - Egyptian-French author and poet
- Ciaran O'Driscoll (b. 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
- 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
- Stuart Ross (born 1959) - Canadian surrealist poet and publisher
- 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 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
- John Yau (born 1950) - American poet and critic
- Dean Young (born 1955) - American poet and poet-laureate for Texas in 2014
See also
- Category:Surrealist poets
- Category:Surrealist writers
References
- 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.
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