Franklin Rosemont

has died. This is sad.

Archambeau has an article about him on his blog.

Rosemont and his wife Penelope were key members of the Chicago Surrealists. I guess Penelope still is.

Speaking of middle grounds and "hybrids": They never wanted to be moderate, temperate, compromised. They are/were Breton-surrealists through and through. No "American Hybrid" for the Rosemonts.

All the books they have written/edited/translated are very insightful and usually brilliant.

I first came across Rosemont some time in the 90s when I found his book "Morning of a Machine Gun" in a heap of old 1960s chapbooks in some used bookstore.