American Book Awards
1 appearances
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Edition 31 (2010) Winner
Franklin Rosemont
フランクリン・ローズモント
Franklin Rosemont
Profile
- Gender
- Male
- Born
- Chicago, Illinois, United States
- Nationality
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Residence History
- Chicago, Illinois → Maywood, Illinois
Career
- Occupations
- poet, artist, historian, street speaker, editor, activist
- Active Years
- 1960-2009
- Affiliations
- Chicago Surrealist Group, Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
- Memberships
- Industrial Workers of the World (member), Students for a Democratic Society (participant)
- Influenced By
- André Breton, Max Ernst, labor movement and radical thinkers
- Influenced
- Penelope Rosemont, Chicago surrealists, researchers and activists in leftist cultural and labor history
Education
| Institution | Faculty | Department | Degree | Period | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Proviso East High School | — | — | — | 〜1960（中途退学） | United States |
| Roosevelt University | — | — | — | 入学 1962 - 卒業年不明 | United States |
Proviso East High School
Period:
〜1960（中途退学）
Country:
United States
Dropped out in 1960
Roosevelt University
Period:
入学 1962 - 卒業年不明
Country:
United States
Admitted in 1962; studied under St. Clair Drake
Awards & Nominations
Works
Major Works
The Morning of a Machine Gun: Twenty Poems & Documents. Profusely Illustrated By the Author
poetryA collection of poems and documents by Rosemont, combining surreal imagery with political statements in collage-like forms.
surrealismurban lifepolitics
The Apple of the Automatic Zebra's Eye
poetryA poetry collection employing surrealist motifs and imagery.
dreamschancefragmented imagery
Penelope: A Poem
poetryA long poem blending personal subject matter with surrealist techniques.
the personal and the publicimage memory
An Open Entrance to the Shut Palace of Wrong Numbers
2003 essay/prose (surrealist investigation)An essay collection exploring the everyday phenomenon of 'wrong numbers' from a surrealist perspective.
everyday defamiliarizationchancecommunication
Joe Hill
2002 nonfiction (biography)A biography of Joe Hill, based on Rosemont's research into labor history.
labor movementsacrifice and memory
Apparitions of Things to Come (editor of Edward Bellamy short stories)
1990 edited volume (fiction reissue)An edited collection of short stories by utopian author Edward Bellamy.
utopiasocial critique
The Big Red Songbook (co-editor)
2007 edited volume (labor songs)An edited collection of labor songs and radical lyrics, published by Charles H. Kerr Publishing Company.
labor songsradical culture
Bibliography
- The Morning of a Machine Gun: Twenty Poems & Documents. Profusely Illustrated By the Author
- The Apple of the Automatic Zebra's Eye
- Penelope: A Poem
- An Open Entrance to the Shut Palace of Wrong Numbers
- Joe Hill
- Apparitions of Things to Come (Edward Bellamy, collected edition, ed.)
- The Big Red Songbook (co-editor)
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- surrealist collagepolitical essayingoral/speech-like style
- Recurring Motifs
- labor movement and its memoryfragments of urban Chicagodreams and intrusions of chance
Legacy
Franklin Rosemont, co-founder of the Chicago Surrealist Group, is recognized as a poet, editor, and scholar who linked surrealism with labor history. His writings and editorial work contributed to preserving labor culture and continuing surrealist practice.
Archives
- Newberry Library: Franklin and Penelope Rosemont collection
- Library of Congress (catalog records)
In Popular Culture
- Obituaries and tributes by poets and activists (numerous blog and specialist magazine memorials)
Trivia
- Co-founder of the Chicago Surrealist Group.
- Worked closely with his wife Penelope Rosemont in editing and publishing projects.
- Member of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) and involved in labor activism.