Stephen Burt has written against this soft surrealism, which he calls “elliptical poetry,” and has suggested that a renewed focus on objects in poetry—on “well-made, attentive ...

An irascible American modernist who not only revolutionized poetry but cultivated a salon ... that made her such a fascinating figure within American surrealism. “Art has to be real crazy ...

When Ted Joans was 10, his aunt fished Parisian Surrealist magazines from the trash of the affluent white home where she worked as a maid. Prohibited from learning another language in his Jim Crow ...