Franklin Rosemont
Franklin Rosemont (born October 2, 1943 in Chicago , Illinois , † April 12, 2009 ibid) was an American anarchist , poet, artist and co-founder of the Chicago Surrealist Group .
Life
Franklin Rosemont was born in 1943 to a trade unionist and a jazz musician. At the age of seven, like his parents, he became a member of the Industrial Workers of the World . Influenced by Jack Kerouac and other Beat Generation writers , he hitchhiked to California at the age of fifteen, where he met Lawrence Ferlinghetti and others. Rosemont studied anthropology at Roosevelt University in Chicago, but dropped out and went to Paris for a long time , where he met the founder of surrealism André Breton .
Back in America, Rosemont and his wife founded the Chicago Surrealist Group , which combined art and poetry with radical politics. Franklin Rosemont has published several works on the history of the labor movement and surrealism, including Joe Hill , the IWW & the Making of a Revolutionary Workingclass Counterculture and Jacques Vaché and the Roots of Surrealism .
Web links
- On the death of the American surrealist Franklin Rosemont, Roger Behrens' obituary in Jungle World
- Franklin Rosemont, 1943-2009: Surrealist poet, labor historian obituary in the Chicago Tribune (eng.)
- Fellow Worker Franklin Rosemont 1943-2009 Obituary of the Industrial Workers of the World (eng.)
- Obituary to Franklin Rosemont at libcom.org (eng.)
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| SURNAME | Rosemont, Franklin |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American poet and anarchist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 2, 1943 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Chicago , Illinois |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 12, 2009 |
| Place of death | Chicago |