By: Joshua Glenn

His pet lobster was guerrilla street theater

By: William Nericcio

The monkey grammarian plagued by conjunctions and disjunctions.

By: William Nericcio

The Cuban writer who was the toast of 1960s-70s Paris.

By: Amanda French

A poetess with a talent for assured incongruity.

By: Alix Lambert

His wit, his sculpture, and his being have proven influential.

By: Tucker Cummings

He was dis­illusioned by the materialism of modern Japan.

By: Brian Berger

The painter’s substantial literary achievement is less well-known.

By: Jerrold Freitag

Everything was a reagent for her compositions.

By: Tucker Cummings

His poetry still seems experimental and forward-thinking today.

By: Tor Aarestad

A lethally and incessantly clever futurist.

By: Jessica Bruder

Fashion plate, poet, proto-punk and feminist performance artist.

By: Lucy Sante

“Surrealism is the order of the day, and Desnos is its prophet”

By: William Nericcio

She wielded mad intellectual superpowers.

By: Brian Berger

He made paradoxic human music of despair.

By: Jerrold Freitag

She strolled in the no man’s land between seeing too much and innocence.