Franklin Rosemont

Franklin Rosemont ( born October 2, 1943 in Chicago, Illinois, † April 12, 2009 ) was an American anarchist, poet, artist and co-founder of the Chicago Surrealist Group.

Life

Franklin Rosemont was born in 1943 the son of a trade unionist and a jazz musician. At the age of seven he was like his parents, members of the union Industrial Workers of the World. Influenced by Jack Kerouac and other writers of the Beat Generation, he went at the age of fifteen years to hitch on to California, where he met Lawrence Ferlinghetti and others. At Roosevelt University in Chicago Rosemont studied anthropology, however, the study broke off and went for a long time to Paris, where he met the founder of Surrealism, André Breton.

Back in America, founded Rosemont and his wife joined the Chicago Surrealist Group, the art and poetry with radical politics. Franklin Rosemont published on the history of the labor movement and Surrealism several works, including Joe Hill, the IWW & the Making of a Revolutionary Working Class Counterculture and Jacques Vache and the Roots of Surrealism.