Nouveau's Midnight Sun: Transcriptions from Golgonooza and Beyond

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The innovative writings in this anthology stretch language into brilliant new hallucinatory shapes. "Like absinthe mixed with Red Bull, they will ruin your waking hours the way you didn't know you wanted them ruined." --Meg Pokrass

"Nouveau's Midnight Sun carries the revolutionizing force of surrealism into the twenty-first century. This much-needed anthology shows that surrealism, in renewing itself, has not mutated beyond recognition, but only has brought forth the farther, deeper implications of the original Manifestoes. As eccentric to established culture as Breton would have wished, these poems, in rewriting & rerouting surrealism, still know to bring the outside in." --Andrew Joron

"Born out of deranged fever, as the author John Thomas Allen puts it, Nouveau's Midnight Sun emanates from his insatiable quest for the angels and demons of surrealism, as a phantom that haunts him even when he was bedridden and convalescing from a harrowing Lyme disease. Allen has methodically gathered leading post-postmodern surrealist poets and artists to reecho the vision of the Surrealist movement founder André Breton. Albeit stylish and highly refined from its avant-garde predecessor, the surrealist poets and artists explore motley themes that define what surrealism is in the 21st century, from a movement of chance, dream, and anarchy to an aesthetic of oddity, deviancy, science fiction, magic realism, ambivalence, absurdity, and decay. The author's introductory essay alone is, in itself, an inimitable literary piece akin to Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra." --Danny Castillones Sillada