Earthlight (Clair de Terre)
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Andre Breton (1896-1966) was a French writer, poet, and surrealist theorist, and is best known as the principal founder of Surrealism. His writings include the Surrealist Manifesto (Manifeste du surrealisme) of 1924, in which he defined surrealism as "pure psychic automatism." His poetry and writings all remain in print to this day. In addition, a vast and continually growing assemblage of writings on, biographies, and museum exhibits continue to keep Breton alive and in public view though out the world. Translator Bill Zavatsky worked as a pianist from the age of fifteen to twenty-five and studied music at the New School. He holds a bachelor's and a master's degree from Columbia University. With Zack Rogow, he cotranslated Earthlight: Poems of Andre Breton, which won the PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize. Zavatsky also co-translated The Poems of A.O. Barnabooth, by Valery Larbaud, with Ron Padgett. He is the author of Where X Marks the Spot; For Steve Royal and Other Poems; Theories of Rain and Other Poems (1975) and his work has appeared in the anthology Will Work For Peace: New Political Poems . He is also the director of SUN, which publishes volumes of poetry and SUN magazine.He lives in New York City Translator Zack Rogow is the author, editor, or translator of twenty books and plays, including eight collections of poetry, three anthologies, five volumes of translation, and a children's book. His translations of George Sand, Colette, and Andre Breton have won numerous awards, including the PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Award and the Northern California Book Award in Translation. His children's book, Oranges, was a Junior Library Guild Book-of-the-Month. He resides in San Francisco.

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