Poetry, with drawings by Jacques Lacomblez. We invented spherical prisms / just to swim in / We were up to our necks / in the musical north // At the ranters' rally / under Robin Hood's oak / we pointed out that the last letter / in Harpo Marx / was the first in Xanadu. Franklin Rosemont and Jacques Lacomblez have both been major figures in the post-WWII Surrealist movement.

Franklin Rosemont was born on October 2, 1943, in Chicago, Illinois. His father, Henry, was a labor activist, and mother, Sally, a jazz musician. He edited and wrote an introduction for What is Surrealism?: Selected Writings of Andre Breton, and edited Rebel Worker, Arsenal/Surrealist Subversion, THE RISE AND FALL OF THE DIL PICKLE and Juice Is Stranger Than Friction: Selected Writings of T-Bone Slim. With Penelope Rosemont and Paul Garon he edited THE FORECAST IS HOT!. His work has been deeply concerned with both the history of surrealism (writing a forward for Max Ernst and Alchemy: A Magician in Search of Myth) and of the radical labor movement in America, for instance, writing a biography of Joe Hill. He died on April 12, 2009, in Chicago.