Surreal-Absurd

Three poems and two collages from John Maradik, complete with an intro on the surreal.

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Six unique and absurd pieces from poet, short story writer, and novelist Rachel B. Glaser, complete with a mini-essay on the surreal.

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Highlighting eight surreal/absurd poems from the ever-prolific and often self-published writer Barton Smock, complete with a mini-essay on surrealism and absurdism.

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“A successful surreal poem makes the magic happen inside the reader. Strangeness or dream logic can sneak past our rational sensors and scream through us like lightning.”

Surreal-Absurd

“I like to say the same things over and over—but spelled different. Have you noticed?” Sharing the work & surreal-absurd outlook of PNW poet william erickson.

Surreal-Absurd Sampler

“Improvisation, chance, surprise, wild leaps, dream-logic, these are the overriding principles. Resistance to where the brain wants to default. Which is to wake up and start talking like a college-admissions essay. Yuck, am I right?”

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Where bodybuilding ended for me, writing began. I adopted what I think of as a Poetics of Silliness, which relies heavily on the Surreal. The Surreal for me is so deeply entangled with the Queer, not just because both are related to open expressions of joy, but because they each represent opportunities of relief.

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Satoshi Iwai was born and lives in Kanagawa, Japan. He writes poems in English and in Japanese. His English work has appeared in Fairly Tale Review, Newfound, Into the Void, Phantom Drift, Outlook Springs, and elsewhere.

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Shivani Mehta’s prose poems will be sure to stop you in your tracks. Magical and surreal, her block-form poetics weave fairytales with fables, origin myths with domesticity.

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My work engages the surreal for two reasons: fun and ease. In writing, I haven’t found anything that comes as natural as the absurd and unnatural. Or as entertaining.

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For me, writing surreal-absurd poetry is a way of sifting through the unconscious and encountering things that feel important there. Often the best images are those that feel all too real despite their obvious artifice.

Surreal-Absurd

The surreal has always played a pivotal role in my writing, essentially as a tool / strategy for dealing with suppressed emotions; uninviting reality, and unfulfilled dreams and desires. My poems afford an opportunity to disrupt the everyday with the unusual.