Affiliated with the Surrealist Group in Paris in the 1960s, Penelope Rosemont is a Chicago poet and painter.

"This is a very fine volume; it is inclusive, superbly researched, and the introductions are clearly written... It should become a standard text of surrealism." Stephen Eric Bronner, Professor of Political Science and Comparative Literature, Rutgers University

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: All My Names Know Your Leap: Surrealist Women and Their ChallengeNotes on Individuals Frequently Cited in This Anthology1. The First Women Surrealists, 1924-1929 Introduction: The Women of La RÉvolution surrÉalisteRenÉe Gauthier Dream: I Am in a Field...Simone Kahn Surrealist Text: This Took Place in the Springtime...The Exquisite CorpsesDenise Levy Surrealist Text: I Went into a Green Song...Surrealist Text: Ivory Blue and Shady Satin...Nancy Cunard Surrealist Manifestation at the Diaghilev BalletThe Beginnings of the Surrealist RevolutionSurrealism, Ethnography, and RevolutionNadja The Blue WindFanny Beznos I Go, the Wind Pushing Me AlongPurity! Purity! Purity!Suzanne Muzard On Love: Reply to an InquiryMy Passage in SurrealismValentine Penrose When It Comes to Love: Response to an InquirySuzanne Muzard, Elsie Houston, and Jeannette Ducrocq Tanguy Surrealist Games2. In the Service of Revolution, 1930-1939 Introduction: Women and Surrealism in the ThirtiesClaude Cabun Captive BalloonThe Invisible AdventurePoetry Keeps Its SecretSurrealism and Working-Class EmancipationFrom life I still expect that overwhelming experienceBeware Domestic Objects!Nancy Cunard How Come, White Man?The Scottsboro CaseA Trip to HarlemSimone Yoyotte Pale Blue Line in a Forced EpisodeHalf-SeasonGreta Knutson Foreign LandLise Deharme The Empty CageThe Little Girl of the Black ForestDenise Bellon, Gala DalÍ, Nusch Eluard, Yolande Oliviero Experimental Research: On the Irrational Knowledge of the Object: The Crystal Ball of the SeersMaruja Mallo Surrealism as Manifest in My WorkMeret Oppenheim Where Is the Wagon Going?If You Say the Right Word, I Can Sing...Anyone That Sees Her White Fingers...Jacqueline Lamba A Revolutionary Approach to Life and the WorldGisÈle Prassinos Arrogant HairThe Ghost of ChateaubriandToyen A Community of Ethical ViewsAlice Rahon Four Poems from On the Bare GroundDespairHourglass Lying DownValentine Penrose There Is the FireThe Datura the SerpentTo a Woman to a PathSheila Legge I Have Done My Best For YouEileen Agar Am I a Surrealist?Mary Low Women and the Spanish RevolutionMarcelle Ferry You Came down from the Mountains...When He Went Away...The One Seated on the Stones of Cheops...Frenzy, Sweet Little Child, You Sleep...Leonora Carrington The Sand CamelGrace Pailthorpe What We Put in PrisonThe Scientific Aspect of SurrealismSurrealist ArtOn the Importance of Fantasy LifeHÉlÈne Vanel Poetry and DanceIthell Colquhoun What Do I Need to Paint a Picture?Jeanne Megnen The Noise Will Start Tomorrow3. Neither Your War Nor Your Peace: The Surrealist International, 1940-1945 Introduction: Women in the Surrealist Diaspora: First Principles and New BeginningsSuzanne CÉsaire AndrÉ Breton, PoetDiscontent of a Civilization1943: Surrealism and UsThe Domain of the MarvelousMary Low Perchance to DreamWomen and Love through Private PropertyFrida Kahlo I Paint My Own RealityFrom Her JournalLucie ThÉsÉe Beautiful as...The Buckets in My Head...Where Will the Earth Fall?Leonora Carrington Down BelowRÉgine Raufast Photography and ImageLaurence IchÉ Scissors Strokes by the Clock...I Prefer Your Uneasiness Like a Dark Lantern...Unpublished CorrespondenceThe Philosophers' StoneGertrude Pape The LakeEardrops from BabylonSusy Hare Complaint for a SorcererSonia Sekula WombMeret Oppenheim Round the World with the Rumpus God....Ithell Colquhoun "Everything Found on Land Is Found in the Sea"Water-Stone of the WiseEmmy Bridgwater On the LineBack to the First BarThe JourneyThe BirdsEdith Rimmington The Growth at the BreakThe Sea-GullAlice Rahon Pointed Out Like the Stars...Little EpidermisSublimated MercuryThe AppellantsFerns in a Hollow of Absence...The Sleeping WomanEva Sulzer Butterfly DreamsAmerindian ArtJacqueline Johnson The Paintings of Alice Rahon PaalenThe EarthIda Kar I Chose PhotographyIkbal El Alailly Introduction to Vertu de l'Allemagne [The Virtue of Germany]4. Surrealism versus the Cold War, 1946-1959 Introduction: Regroupment and Occultation: Women in the Surrealist Underground in the 1950sThÉrÈse Renaud I Lay My HeadFranÇoise Sullivan Dance and AutomatismIrÉne Hamoir PearlAriaThe ProcessionEmmy Bridgwater, Ithell Colquhoun, IrÉne Hamoir, and Edith Rimmington Surrealist Inquiry: What Do You Hate Most?Lise Deharme I Didn't Know Gertrude SteinMaria Martins I Am the Tropical Night's High NoonArt, Liberation, and PeaceHelen Phillips The Image: Recognition of a MomentVera HÉrold The Big LGisÈle Prassinos Peppermint Tower in Praise of Greedy Little GirlsIthell Colquhoun The Mantic Stain: Surrealism and AutomatismDorothea Tanning LegendNora Mitrani Scandal with a Secret Face"Blacker Than Black. . ."About Cats and MagnoliasPoetry, Freedom of BeingOn Slaves, Suffragettes, and the WhipConcupiscence and Scandal: Definitions from the Succinct Lexicon of EroticismValentine Penrose I DreamBeautiful or Ugly It Doesn't MatterJacqueline Johnson Taking a Sight 1951Alice Rahon Painter and MagicianJacqueline Senard Reason and Safety FactorsCat=CloverPolarElisa Breton One in the OtherElisa Breton, Anne Segbers, and Toyen Surrealist Inquiry: Would You Open the Door?Joyce Mansour Into the Red VelvetLovely MonsterPractical Advice for WaitingTo Come, Possession, Prick Tease: Definitions from the Succinct Lexicon of EroticismMeret Oppenheim Automatism at a CrossroadsI Have to Write Down the Black WordsJudit Reigl Points of Departure for a New RevoltIsabel Meyrelles Night WordsAnneliese Hager Of the Poison of DreamsThe Blue SpellAutomatic DreamDrahomira Vandas Light Throws ShadowsAn Egg Hatches Out a FlameRain ManOlga Orozco Twilight (Between Dog and Wolf)Blanca Varela Dance CardMarianne van Hirtum In Those Rooms...Abandon, Meeting, Orgasm, Seduce, Vice: Definitions from the Succinct Lexicon of EroticismLeonora Carrington Comments on The Temptation of St. AnthonyOn Magic Art: A Conversation, 1996Kay Sage Painter and WriterAn ObservationThe WindowChinoiserieFragranceMimi Parent Depraved Person, License, Masturbation, Voyeur: Definitions from the Succinct Lexicon of EroticismSonia Sekula Notes from a Journal: The Occurrence of Meeting a Face Contra a FaceRemedios Varo A Recipe: How to Produce Erotic Dreams5. The Making of "May '68" and Its Sequels Introduction: Women in the Surrealist Resurgence of the 1960s and 1970sNora Mitrani In Defense of SurrealismNelly Kaplan Memoirs of a Lady Sheet DivinerAt the Women Warriors' TableEnough or Still MoreAll Creation Is Androgynous: An InterviewNicole Espagnol Female SocketHeartstoppingThe Conclusion Is Not DrawnThe Wind TurnsAnnie Le Brun Introduction to Drop Everything!Giovanna Where Are We in Relation to Surrealism?Baking Chocolate and DialecticsWhat Do I Know...TherapyMonique Charbonel It's a WonderUnica ZÜrn Lying in AmbushElisabeth Lenk Surrealism: A Liberating and Catalyzing Element in Germany TodayAutomatic Text for Anne EthuinPenelope Rosemont PassageCandleRising AsleepJoyce Mansour A MangoNight in the Shape of a BisonTen to One to NoWild Glee from ElsewhereAbsolute Divergence: The International Surrealist Exhibition, 1965-1966Mimi Parent Are You a Surrealist?Marianne van Hirtum The Future of Surrealism: Response to an InquiryWhile We Spend Our Lives Ironing...And I Shall Be the Mouth of Copper...The Naked TruthVampiro NoxSurrealism: Rising SignAnne Ethuin LegendIsabel Meyrelles I Will Tell You During the Walk...Tyger, TygerLuiza Neto Jorge Another Genealogy"Monument to Birds" (Max Ernst)FableThe Force of GravitySphericity: FerocityAlejandra Pizarnik Caroline von GÜnderodeIn a Copy of Les Chants de MaldororLeila Ferraz Secrets of Surrealist Magic ArtMy Love, I Speak to You of a LoveRikki Ducornet My Special MadnessNecromancyDark Star, Black StarMacheteCleanNancy Joyce Peters To the Death of MirrorsGeneral StrikeNelly Kaplan's NÉa: Woman and Eroticism in FilmAlice Farley Notes toward a Surrealist DanceJayne Cortez ConsultationFeathersIn the Line of DutyMake IfaSay ItHaifa Zangana Can We Disturb These Living Coffins?A Symbol of Sin and Evil Thoughts: Introduction to Ibn Hazm Al-AndalusiHilary Booth Their Games and Ours: A Note on Time-Travelers' PotlatchHilary Booth, Nancy Joyce Peters, Penelope Rosemont, Debra Taub Surrealist Games: Time-Travelers' PotlatchValentine Penrose From These Husks Are Worlds MadeLeonora Carrington What Is a Woman?The Cabbage Is a RoseMeret Oppenheim Nobody Will Give You Freedom, You Have to Take It6. Surrealism: A Challenge to the Twenty-First Century Introduction: Women and Surrealism Today and TomorrowSilvia GrÉnier SalomÉSignsCarmen Bruna Poetry: An Incitement to Revolt"Lady from Shanghai"Moi-MÊme (Myself)Eva SvankmajerovÁ Emancipation CycleTactile LidsStunned by FreedomI Don't Know ExactlyAlena NÁdvorn'kovÁ Emila MedkovÁ's Photographs and the Anthropomorphization of DetailDetermination of TimeArt History (Sandro Botticelli)Ivana CiglinovÁ The Old Crow's StoryMary Low The CompanionQ.E.D.Where the Wolf SingsEncounterHilary Booth Long Hot Summer: Great Black Music TodayPreface to I Am RainOur Skin Is PaperPoem for Central AmericaMarie-Dominique Massoni Two SecondsHow Old Is the Old Mole?Haifa Zangana What Choice?Jayne Cortez When I Look at Wifredo Lam's PaintingsBumblebee, You Saw Big MamaSacred TreesPenelope Rosemont Life and Times of the Golden GooseThe Bad Days Will EndRevolution by ChanceRikki Ducornet The Volatilized Ceiling of Baron MunodiManifesto in VoicesAlice Farley Permutations of DesireCostumes: Vehicles of TransformationGestureIrene Plazewska Newton's DescentDebra Taub A Dance in the ForestExquisite AlchemySecret MelodiesGina Litherland Imagination and WildernessIvanir de Oliveira Collage: Image of RevelationNicole E. Reiss DivagationsA Delirious Voyage inside a CircleElaine Parra To Radicalize with Beauty and LoveSarah Metcalf A Game of Slight DisturbancesKaterina PinosovÁ The Piece of BoneLenka ValacbovÁ The Sterile DishKajsa Bergh DesirePetra Mandal First-Hand KnowledgeNancy Joyce Peters Women and SurrealismBibliographyIndex

Affiliated with the Surrealist Group in Paris in the 1960s, Penelope Rosemont is a Chicago poet and painter.

"This is a very fine volume; it is inclusive, superbly researched, and the introductions are clearly written... It should become a standard text of surrealism." Stephen Eric Bronner, Professor of Political Science and Comparative Literature, Rutgers University

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: All My Names Know Your Leap: Surrealist Women and Their ChallengeNotes on Individuals Frequently Cited in This Anthology1. The First Women Surrealists, 1924-1929 Introduction: The Women of La RÉvolution surrÉalisteRenÉe Gauthier Dream: I Am in a Field...Simone Kahn Surrealist Text: This Took Place in the Springtime...The Exquisite CorpsesDenise Levy Surrealist Text: I Went into a Green Song...Surrealist Text: Ivory Blue and Shady Satin...Nancy Cunard Surrealist Manifestation at the Diaghilev BalletThe Beginnings of the Surrealist RevolutionSurrealism, Ethnography, and RevolutionNadja The Blue WindFanny Beznos I Go, the Wind Pushing Me AlongPurity! Purity! Purity!Suzanne Muzard On Love: Reply to an InquiryMy Passage in SurrealismValentine Penrose When It Comes to Love: Response to an InquirySuzanne Muzard, Elsie Houston, and Jeannette Ducrocq Tanguy Surrealist Games2. In the Service of Revolution, 1930-1939 Introduction: Women and Surrealism in the ThirtiesClaude Cabun Captive BalloonThe Invisible AdventurePoetry Keeps Its SecretSurrealism and Working-Class EmancipationFrom life I still expect that overwhelming experienceBeware Domestic Objects!Nancy Cunard How Come, White Man?The Scottsboro CaseA Trip to HarlemSimone Yoyotte Pale Blue Line in a Forced EpisodeHalf-SeasonGreta Knutson Foreign LandLise Deharme The Empty CageThe Little Girl of the Black ForestDenise Bellon, Gala DalÍ, Nusch Eluard, Yolande Oliviero Experimental Research: On the Irrational Knowledge of the Object: The Crystal Ball of the SeersMaruja Mallo Surrealism as Manifest in My WorkMeret Oppenheim Where Is the Wagon Going?If You Say the Right Word, I Can Sing...Anyone That Sees Her White Fingers...Jacqueline Lamba A Revolutionary Approach to Life and the WorldGisÈle Prassinos Arrogant HairThe Ghost of ChateaubriandToyen A Community of Ethical ViewsAlice Rahon Four Poems from On the Bare GroundDespairHourglass Lying DownValentine Penrose There Is the FireThe Datura the SerpentTo a Woman to a PathSheila Legge I Have Done My Best For YouEileen Agar Am I a Surrealist?Mary Low Women and the Spanish RevolutionMarcelle Ferry You Came down from the Mountains...When He Went Away...The One Seated on the Stones of Cheops...Frenzy, Sweet Little Child, You Sleep...Leonora Carrington The Sand CamelGrace Pailthorpe What We Put in PrisonThe Scientific Aspect of SurrealismSurrealist ArtOn the Importance of Fantasy LifeHÉlÈne Vanel Poetry and DanceIthell Colquhoun What Do I Need to Paint a Picture?Jeanne Megnen The Noise Will Start Tomorrow3. Neither Your War Nor Your Peace: The Surrealist International, 1940-1945 Introduction: Women in the Surrealist Diaspora: First Principles and New BeginningsSuzanne CÉsaire AndrÉ Breton, PoetDiscontent of a Civilization1943: Surrealism and UsThe Domain of the MarvelousMary Low Perchance to DreamWomen and Love through Private PropertyFrida Kahlo I Paint My Own RealityFrom Her JournalLucie ThÉsÉe Beautiful as...The Buckets in My Head...Where Will the Earth Fall?Leonora Carrington Down BelowRÉgine Raufast Photography and ImageLaurence IchÉ Scissors Strokes by the Clock...I Prefer Your Uneasiness Like a Dark Lantern...Unpublished CorrespondenceThe Philosophers' StoneGertrude Pape The LakeEardrops from BabylonSusy Hare Complaint for a SorcererSonia Sekula WombMeret Oppenheim Round the World with the Rumpus God....Ithell Colquhoun "Everything Found on Land Is Found in the Sea"Water-Stone of the WiseEmmy Bridgwater On the LineBack to the First BarThe JourneyThe BirdsEdith Rimmington The Growth at the BreakThe Sea-GullAlice Rahon Pointed Out Like the Stars...Little EpidermisSublimated MercuryThe AppellantsFerns in a Hollow of Absence...The Sleeping WomanEva Sulzer Butterfly DreamsAmerindian ArtJacqueline Johnson The Paintings of Alice Rahon PaalenThe EarthIda Kar I Chose PhotographyIkbal El Alailly Introduction to Vertu de l'Allemagne [The Virtue of Germany]4. Surrealism versus the Cold War, 1946-1959 Introduction: Regroupment and Occultation: Women in the Surrealist Underground in the 1950sThÉrÈse Renaud I Lay My HeadFranÇoise Sullivan Dance and AutomatismIrÉne Hamoir PearlAriaThe ProcessionEmmy Bridgwater, Ithell Colquhoun, IrÉne Hamoir, and Edith Rimmington Surrealist Inquiry: What Do You Hate Most?Lise Deharme I Didn't Know Gertrude SteinMaria Martins I Am the Tropical Night's High NoonArt, Liberation, and PeaceHelen Phillips The Image: Recognition of a MomentVera HÉrold The Big LGisÈle Prassinos Peppermint Tower in Praise of Greedy Little GirlsIthell Colquhoun The Mantic Stain: Surrealism and AutomatismDorothea Tanning LegendNora Mitrani Scandal with a Secret Face"Blacker Than Black. . ."About Cats and MagnoliasPoetry, Freedom of BeingOn Slaves, Suffragettes, and the WhipConcupiscence and Scandal: Definitions from the Succinct Lexicon of EroticismValentine Penrose I DreamBeautiful or Ugly It Doesn't MatterJacqueline Johnson Taking a Sight 1951Alice Rahon Painter and MagicianJacqueline Senard Reason and Safety FactorsCat=CloverPolarElisa Breton One in the OtherElisa Breton, Anne Segbers, and Toyen Surrealist Inquiry: Would You Open the Door?Joyce Mansour Into the Red VelvetLovely MonsterPractical Advice for WaitingTo Come, Possession, Prick Tease: Definitions from the Succinct Lexicon of EroticismMeret Oppenheim Automatism at a CrossroadsI Have to Write Down the Black WordsJudit Reigl Points of Departure for a New RevoltIsabel Meyrelles Night WordsAnneliese Hager Of the Poison of DreamsThe Blue SpellAutomatic DreamDrahomira Vandas Light Throws ShadowsAn Egg Hatches Out a FlameRain ManOlga Orozco Twilight (Between Dog and Wolf)Blanca Varela Dance CardMarianne van Hirtum In Those Rooms...Abandon, Meeting, Orgasm, Seduce, Vice: Definitions from the Succinct Lexicon of EroticismLeonora Carrington Comments on The Temptation of St. AnthonyOn Magic Art: A Conversation, 1996Kay Sage Painter and WriterAn ObservationThe WindowChinoiserieFragranceMimi Parent Depraved Person, License, Masturbation, Voyeur: Definitions from the Succinct Lexicon of EroticismSonia Sekula Notes from a Journal: The Occurrence of Meeting a Face Contra a FaceRemedios Varo A Recipe: How to Produce Erotic Dreams5. The Making of "May '68" and Its Sequels Introduction: Women in the Surrealist Resurgence of the 1960s and 1970sNora Mitrani In Defense of SurrealismNelly Kaplan Memoirs of a Lady Sheet DivinerAt the Women Warriors' TableEnough or Still MoreAll Creation Is Androgynous: An InterviewNicole Espagnol Female SocketHeartstoppingThe Conclusion Is Not DrawnThe Wind TurnsAnnie Le Brun Introduction to Drop Everything!Giovanna Where Are We in Relation to Surrealism?Baking Chocolate and DialecticsWhat Do I Know...TherapyMonique Charbonel It's a WonderUnica ZÜrn Lying in AmbushElisabeth Lenk Surrealism: A Liberating and Catalyzing Element in Germany TodayAutomatic Text for Anne EthuinPenelope Rosemont PassageCandleRising AsleepJoyce Mansour A MangoNight in the Shape of a BisonTen to One to NoWild Glee from ElsewhereAbsolute Divergence: The International Surrealist Exhibition, 1965-1966Mimi Parent Are You a Surrealist?Marianne van Hirtum The Future of Surrealism: Response to an InquiryWhile We Spend Our Lives Ironing...And I Shall Be the Mouth of Copper...The Naked TruthVampiro NoxSurrealism: Rising SignAnne Ethuin LegendIsabel Meyrelles I Will Tell You During the Walk...Tyger, TygerLuiza Neto Jorge Another Genealogy"Monument to Birds" (Max Ernst)FableThe Force of GravitySphericity: FerocityAlejandra Pizarnik Caroline von GÜnderodeIn a Copy of Les Chants de MaldororLeila Ferraz Secrets of Surrealist Magic ArtMy Love, I Speak to You of a LoveRikki Ducornet My Special MadnessNecromancyDark Star, Black StarMacheteCleanNancy Joyce Peters To the Death of MirrorsGeneral StrikeNelly Kaplan's NÉa: Woman and Eroticism in FilmAlice Farley Notes toward a Surrealist DanceJayne Cortez ConsultationFeathersIn the Line of DutyMake IfaSay ItHaifa Zangana Can We Disturb These Living Coffins?A Symbol of Sin and Evil Thoughts: Introduction to Ibn Hazm Al-AndalusiHilary Booth Their Games and Ours: A Note on Time-Travelers' PotlatchHilary Booth, Nancy Joyce Peters, Penelope Rosemont, Debra Taub Surrealist Games: Time-Travelers' PotlatchValentine Penrose From These Husks Are Worlds MadeLeonora Carrington What Is a Woman?The Cabbage Is a RoseMeret Oppenheim Nobody Will Give You Freedom, You Have to Take It6. Surrealism: A Challenge to the Twenty-First Century Introduction: Women and Surrealism Today and TomorrowSilvia GrÉnier SalomÉSignsCarmen Bruna Poetry: An Incitement to Revolt"Lady from Shanghai"Moi-MÊme (Myself)Eva SvankmajerovÁ Emancipation CycleTactile LidsStunned by FreedomI Don't Know ExactlyAlena NÁdvorn'kovÁ Emila MedkovÁ's Photographs and the Anthropomorphization of DetailDetermination of TimeArt History (Sandro Botticelli)Ivana CiglinovÁ The Old Crow's StoryMary Low The CompanionQ.E.D.Where the Wolf SingsEncounterHilary Booth Long Hot Summer: Great Black Music TodayPreface to I Am RainOur Skin Is PaperPoem for Central AmericaMarie-Dominique Massoni Two SecondsHow Old Is the Old Mole?Haifa Zangana What Choice?Jayne Cortez When I Look at Wifredo Lam's PaintingsBumblebee, You Saw Big MamaSacred TreesPenelope Rosemont Life and Times of the Golden GooseThe Bad Days Will EndRevolution by ChanceRikki Ducornet The Volatilized Ceiling of Baron MunodiManifesto in VoicesAlice Farley Permutations of DesireCostumes: Vehicles of TransformationGestureIrene Plazewska Newton's DescentDebra Taub A Dance in the ForestExquisite AlchemySecret MelodiesGina Litherland Imagination and WildernessIvanir de Oliveira Collage: Image of RevelationNicole E. Reiss DivagationsA Delirious Voyage inside a CircleElaine Parra To Radicalize with Beauty and LoveSarah Metcalf A Game of Slight DisturbancesKaterina PinosovÁ The Piece of BoneLenka ValacbovÁ The Sterile DishKajsa Bergh DesirePetra Mandal First-Hand KnowledgeNancy Joyce Peters Women and SurrealismBibliographyIndex

Affiliated with the Surrealist Group in Paris in the 1960s, Penelope Rosemont is a Chicago poet and painter.

"This is a very fine volume; it is inclusive, superbly researched, and the introductions are clearly written... It should become a standard text of surrealism." Stephen Eric Bronner, Professor of Political Science and Comparative Literature, Rutgers University

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: All My Names Know Your Leap: Surrealist Women and Their ChallengeNotes on Individuals Frequently Cited in This Anthology1. The First Women Surrealists, 1924-1929 Introduction: The Women of La RÉvolution surrÉalisteRenÉe Gauthier Dream: I Am in a Field...Simone Kahn Surrealist Text: This Took Place in the Springtime...The Exquisite CorpsesDenise Levy Surrealist Text: I Went into a Green Song...Surrealist Text: Ivory Blue and Shady Satin...Nancy Cunard Surrealist Manifestation at the Diaghilev BalletThe Beginnings of the Surrealist RevolutionSurrealism, Ethnography, and RevolutionNadja The Blue WindFanny Beznos I Go, the Wind Pushing Me AlongPurity! Purity! Purity!Suzanne Muzard On Love: Reply to an InquiryMy Passage in SurrealismValentine Penrose When It Comes to Love: Response to an InquirySuzanne Muzard, Elsie Houston, and Jeannette Ducrocq Tanguy Surrealist Games2. In the Service of Revolution, 1930-1939 Introduction: Women and Surrealism in the ThirtiesClaude Cabun Captive BalloonThe Invisible AdventurePoetry Keeps Its SecretSurrealism and Working-Class EmancipationFrom life I still expect that overwhelming experienceBeware Domestic Objects!Nancy Cunard How Come, White Man?The Scottsboro CaseA Trip to HarlemSimone Yoyotte Pale Blue Line in a Forced EpisodeHalf-SeasonGreta Knutson Foreign LandLise Deharme The Empty CageThe Little Girl of the Black ForestDenise Bellon, Gala DalÍ, Nusch Eluard, Yolande Oliviero Experimental Research: On the Irrational Knowledge of the Object: The Crystal Ball of the SeersMaruja Mallo Surrealism as Manifest in My WorkMeret Oppenheim Where Is the Wagon Going?If You Say the Right Word, I Can Sing...Anyone That Sees Her White Fingers...Jacqueline Lamba A Revolutionary Approach to Life and the WorldGisÈle Prassinos Arrogant HairThe Ghost of ChateaubriandToyen A Community of Ethical ViewsAlice Rahon Four Poems from On the Bare GroundDespairHourglass Lying DownValentine Penrose There Is the FireThe Datura the SerpentTo a Woman to a PathSheila Legge I Have Done My Best For YouEileen Agar Am I a Surrealist?Mary Low Women and the Spanish RevolutionMarcelle Ferry You Came down from the Mountains...When He Went Away...The One Seated on the Stones of Cheops...Frenzy, Sweet Little Child, You Sleep...Leonora Carrington The Sand CamelGrace Pailthorpe What We Put in PrisonThe Scientific Aspect of SurrealismSurrealist ArtOn the Importance of Fantasy LifeHÉlÈne Vanel Poetry and DanceIthell Colquhoun What Do I Need to Paint a Picture?Jeanne Megnen The Noise Will Start Tomorrow3. Neither Your War Nor Your Peace: The Surrealist International, 1940-1945 Introduction: Women in the Surrealist Diaspora: First Principles and New BeginningsSuzanne CÉsaire AndrÉ Breton, PoetDiscontent of a Civilization1943: Surrealism and UsThe Domain of the MarvelousMary Low Perchance to DreamWomen and Love through Private PropertyFrida Kahlo I Paint My Own RealityFrom Her JournalLucie ThÉsÉe Beautiful as...The Buckets in My Head...Where Will the Earth Fall?Leonora Carrington Down BelowRÉgine Raufast Photography and ImageLaurence IchÉ Scissors Strokes by the Clock...I Prefer Your Uneasiness Like a Dark Lantern...Unpublished CorrespondenceThe Philosophers' StoneGertrude Pape The LakeEardrops from BabylonSusy Hare Complaint for a SorcererSonia Sekula WombMeret Oppenheim Round the World with the Rumpus God....Ithell Colquhoun "Everything Found on Land Is Found in the Sea"Water-Stone of the WiseEmmy Bridgwater On the LineBack to the First BarThe JourneyThe BirdsEdith Rimmington The Growth at the BreakThe Sea-GullAlice Rahon Pointed Out Like the Stars...Little EpidermisSublimated MercuryThe AppellantsFerns in a Hollow of Absence...The Sleeping WomanEva Sulzer Butterfly DreamsAmerindian ArtJacqueline Johnson The Paintings of Alice Rahon PaalenThe EarthIda Kar I Chose PhotographyIkbal El Alailly Introduction to Vertu de l'Allemagne [The Virtue of Germany]4. Surrealism versus the Cold War, 1946-1959 Introduction: Regroupment and Occultation: Women in the Surrealist Underground in the 1950sThÉrÈse Renaud I Lay My HeadFranÇoise Sullivan Dance and AutomatismIrÉne Hamoir PearlAriaThe ProcessionEmmy Bridgwater, Ithell Colquhoun, IrÉne Hamoir, and Edith Rimmington Surrealist Inquiry: What Do You Hate Most?Lise Deharme I Didn't Know Gertrude SteinMaria Martins I Am the Tropical Night's High NoonArt, Liberation, and PeaceHelen Phillips The Image: Recognition of a MomentVera HÉrold The Big LGisÈle Prassinos Peppermint Tower in Praise of Greedy Little GirlsIthell Colquhoun The Mantic Stain: Surrealism and AutomatismDorothea Tanning LegendNora Mitrani Scandal with a Secret Face"Blacker Than Black. . ."About Cats and MagnoliasPoetry, Freedom of BeingOn Slaves, Suffragettes, and the WhipConcupiscence and Scandal: Definitions from the Succinct Lexicon of EroticismValentine Penrose I DreamBeautiful or Ugly It Doesn't MatterJacqueline Johnson Taking a Sight 1951Alice Rahon Painter and MagicianJacqueline Senard Reason and Safety FactorsCat=CloverPolarElisa Breton One in the OtherElisa Breton, Anne Segbers, and Toyen Surrealist Inquiry: Would You Open the Door?Joyce Mansour Into the Red VelvetLovely MonsterPractical Advice for WaitingTo Come, Possession, Prick Tease: Definitions from the Succinct Lexicon of EroticismMeret Oppenheim Automatism at a CrossroadsI Have to Write Down the Black WordsJudit Reigl Points of Departure for a New RevoltIsabel Meyrelles Night WordsAnneliese Hager Of the Poison of DreamsThe Blue SpellAutomatic DreamDrahomira Vandas Light Throws ShadowsAn Egg Hatches Out a FlameRain ManOlga Orozco Twilight (Between Dog and Wolf)Blanca Varela Dance CardMarianne van Hirtum In Those Rooms...Abandon, Meeting, Orgasm, Seduce, Vice: Definitions from the Succinct Lexicon of EroticismLeonora Carrington Comments on The Temptation of St. AnthonyOn Magic Art: A Conversation, 1996Kay Sage Painter and WriterAn ObservationThe WindowChinoiserieFragranceMimi Parent Depraved Person, License, Masturbation, Voyeur: Definitions from the Succinct Lexicon of EroticismSonia Sekula Notes from a Journal: The Occurrence of Meeting a Face Contra a FaceRemedios Varo A Recipe: How to Produce Erotic Dreams5. The Making of "May '68" and Its Sequels Introduction: Women in the Surrealist Resurgence of the 1960s and 1970sNora Mitrani In Defense of SurrealismNelly Kaplan Memoirs of a Lady Sheet DivinerAt the Women Warriors' TableEnough or Still MoreAll Creation Is Androgynous: An InterviewNicole Espagnol Female SocketHeartstoppingThe Conclusion Is Not DrawnThe Wind TurnsAnnie Le Brun Introduction to Drop Everything!Giovanna Where Are We in Relation to Surrealism?Baking Chocolate and DialecticsWhat Do I Know...TherapyMonique Charbonel It's a WonderUnica ZÜrn Lying in AmbushElisabeth Lenk Surrealism: A Liberating and Catalyzing Element in Germany TodayAutomatic Text for Anne EthuinPenelope Rosemont PassageCandleRising AsleepJoyce Mansour A MangoNight in the Shape of a BisonTen to One to NoWild Glee from ElsewhereAbsolute Divergence: The International Surrealist Exhibition, 1965-1966Mimi Parent Are You a Surrealist?Marianne van Hirtum The Future of Surrealism: Response to an InquiryWhile We Spend Our Lives Ironing...And I Shall Be the Mouth of Copper...The Naked TruthVampiro NoxSurrealism: Rising SignAnne Ethuin LegendIsabel Meyrelles I Will Tell You During the Walk...Tyger, TygerLuiza Neto Jorge Another Genealogy"Monument to Birds" (Max Ernst)FableThe Force of GravitySphericity: FerocityAlejandra Pizarnik Caroline von GÜnderodeIn a Copy of Les Chants de MaldororLeila Ferraz Secrets of Surrealist Magic ArtMy Love, I Speak to You of a LoveRikki Ducornet My Special MadnessNecromancyDark Star, Black StarMacheteCleanNancy Joyce Peters To the Death of MirrorsGeneral StrikeNelly Kaplan's NÉa: Woman and Eroticism in FilmAlice Farley Notes toward a Surrealist DanceJayne Cortez ConsultationFeathersIn the Line of DutyMake IfaSay ItHaifa Zangana Can We Disturb These Living Coffins?A Symbol of Sin and Evil Thoughts: Introduction to Ibn Hazm Al-AndalusiHilary Booth Their Games and Ours: A Note on Time-Travelers' PotlatchHilary Booth, Nancy Joyce Peters, Penelope Rosemont, Debra Taub Surrealist Games: Time-Travelers' PotlatchValentine Penrose From These Husks Are Worlds MadeLeonora Carrington What Is a Woman?The Cabbage Is a RoseMeret Oppenheim Nobody Will Give You Freedom, You Have to Take It6. Surrealism: A Challenge to the Twenty-First Century Introduction: Women and Surrealism Today and TomorrowSilvia GrÉnier SalomÉSignsCarmen Bruna Poetry: An Incitement to Revolt"Lady from Shanghai"Moi-MÊme (Myself)Eva SvankmajerovÁ Emancipation CycleTactile LidsStunned by FreedomI Don't Know ExactlyAlena NÁdvorn'kovÁ Emila MedkovÁ's Photographs and the Anthropomorphization of DetailDetermination of TimeArt History (Sandro Botticelli)Ivana CiglinovÁ The Old Crow's StoryMary Low The CompanionQ.E.D.Where the Wolf SingsEncounterHilary Booth Long Hot Summer: Great Black Music TodayPreface to I Am RainOur Skin Is PaperPoem for Central AmericaMarie-Dominique Massoni Two SecondsHow Old Is the Old Mole?Haifa Zangana What Choice?Jayne Cortez When I Look at Wifredo Lam's PaintingsBumblebee, You Saw Big MamaSacred TreesPenelope Rosemont Life and Times of the Golden GooseThe Bad Days Will EndRevolution by ChanceRikki Ducornet The Volatilized Ceiling of Baron MunodiManifesto in VoicesAlice Farley Permutations of DesireCostumes: Vehicles of TransformationGestureIrene Plazewska Newton's DescentDebra Taub A Dance in the ForestExquisite AlchemySecret MelodiesGina Litherland Imagination and WildernessIvanir de Oliveira Collage: Image of RevelationNicole E. Reiss DivagationsA Delirious Voyage inside a CircleElaine Parra To Radicalize with Beauty and LoveSarah Metcalf A Game of Slight DisturbancesKaterina PinosovÁ The Piece of BoneLenka ValacbovÁ The Sterile DishKajsa Bergh DesirePetra Mandal First-Hand KnowledgeNancy Joyce Peters Women and SurrealismBibliographyIndex