This collection is based on the pioneering anthology of Peret’s writings that first appeared in August 1970 in the SDS journal Radical America, introduced by Franklin Rosemont. This new, expanded and illustrated edition includes a selection of Peret’s incomparable poetry and stories, a wide range of crtiical essays of the practice of poetry, the struggle against capitalism, slave revolts in Brazil, Pre-Columbian art, and appreciations of the great surrealist artists Wifredo Lam, Jundirch Styrsky, and Toyen. An afterword by Don LaCoss discusses the ecological dimension of Peret’s work. Peret's writings testify with burning clarity to his relentless devotion to the cause of breaking the social, cultural, and psychological fetters which reduce the imagination to misery and degradation. An essential collection by an essential member of the first Surrealist group.

A Menagerie in Revolt!: Selected Writings

Benjamin Péret

Arts & Photography

Black Swan Press

Luis Bunuel called Péret “the quintessential surrealist poet.” Benjamin Peret is a poet like no other. One of the original group of Surrealists, he seceded from Dada in 1924 and remained faithful to Surrealist principles until his death in 1959. His irreverence and incandescent imagination remain fresh and funny, and they are perfectly captured in this inspired, idomatic translation.

From the Hidden Storehouse: Selected Poems

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

Oberlin College Press

The first full length translation into English of Peret's Le Grand Jeu (The Big Game, first published in 1928). Benjamin Peret (1899-1959) was one of the founders of Surrealism (with Andre Breton and Louis Aragon). The Big Game was Peret's best known work of the time and is still in print in France 80 years later.

The Big Game (Black Widow Press Translations)

Commonwealth Books, Black Widow

Originally clandestinely published in 1929 in Brussels in an edition of 215 copies and intended for private distribution, most copies were seized by customs at the French border. This is the first edition translated into English. With four sexually explicit images by Man Ray. Poems by Benjamin Peret and Aragon; edited by Andre Breton, though uncredited. 54 pages; 4 b&amp;w plates; 7 x 8.75 inches. Text in English. From an edition limited to 215 copies.

1929

Aragon

MAN, RAY

Alyscamps Press

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