Contemporary Surrealist and Magical Realist Poetry

This is the first major international anthology of contemporary

surrealist and magical realist poetry. It presents poems by

130 poets from 25 countries, who explore the boundaries of

the poetic imagination, presenting the world as a vigorous

unbound frame. These brilliantly original poems layer

contradictory conditions of fantasy and reality into new

contours of existence, transforming them into what is

possible. These pages offer new perspectives on what it

means to be alive, to be fully human in ...