Surrealist Love Poems Book

Mary Ann Caws
The poetics of surrealist love

Louis Aragon
The approach of love and a kiss Poem written in the toilets with a knife on the wall
André Breton
Free union I dream I see your image Always for the first time They tell me that over there As they move In the lovely twilight On the road to San Romano
Jacques-Bernard Brunius
I love
Aimé Césaire
The automatic crystal
René Char
Love The climate of the hunt or how poetry is made The nuptial countenance
Salvador Dalí
Binding cradled - cradle bound
Léon-Gontran Damas
Through the half-opened window
Robert Desnos
I have so often dreamed of you No, love is not dead If you knew Sleep spaces Oh pangs of love!
Never anyone but you The voice of Robert Desnos Obsession
Paul Eluard
Your mouth with golden lips The shape of your eyes I love you The earth is blue like an orange I've told you As you rise The lover About one, two, everyone Since it must be Our life
Marcelle Ferry
You came down from the mountains
Frida Kahlo
Now he comes
Annie Le Brun
Twelfth ring (extract)
Gilbert Lély
Sulphur smile
Dora Maar
I rested in the arms of my arms
Joyce Mansour
Your breath in my mouth You love to lie in our unmade bed I want to show myself naked Remember The storm sketches a silver margin I want to sleep with you
Maria
Even long after my death
Alice Paalen
Turtledove on the ground A woman who was beautiful
Octavio Paz
Clear night (extract)
Valentine Penrose
Beloved to love you
Benjamin Péret
Wink Hello Do you know Fountain
Pablo Picasso
Her great thighs
Philippe Soupault
Georgia Song for ghosts and for those now gone
Remedios Varo
A recipe: how to produce erotic dreams

Biographies Sources List of illustrated works