Imagining Surrealist Revolution Refusing Miserablism/Emancipating Desire

By Ron Sakolsky with illustrations by Guy Girard. Published by Black Swan Press; designed and printed by Eberhardt Press. A subversive collage of essays, poems, and stories that each in their own way imagines what it is about surrealism as a revolutionary force of transformation that makes it such a marvelous dancing partner for anarchy. Together the pieces of this puzzle issue a call for emancipatory desire in motion swirling madly beyond the miserabilist rationality that confines us behind the prison bars of reality. As a unique part of this collaborative project, all of the dancing words within are bathed in the oneiric light of the anarcho-surrealist “double portraits” of Guy Girard. ISBN: 978-0-941194-19-8 Publication Year: 2026 Dimensions: 5.5 X 8.2," 190 pages Materials: Softcover book Charles H. Kerr Publishing (South Chicago) Founded by Charles Hope Kerr, a son of abolitionists, in 1886, Charles H. Kerr Publishing is the oldest continuously running radical publisher in the US, offering "subversive literature for the whole family." Close to the Socialist Party and the Industrial Workers of the World, Kerr brought out many Marxist classics, including the first complete English edition of Capital (1906–1909), as well as works by anarchist Peter Kropotkin, feminist Matilda Joslyn Gage, Irish revolutionist James Connolly, animal rights crusader J. Howard Moore, such noted U.S. socialists as Eugene V. Debs, “Mother” Jones, Upton Sinclair, Jack London, Gustavus Myers, Carl Sandburg, William D. Haywood, Mary E. Marcy—whose Shop Talks on Economics (1911) sold over two million copies—and, more recently, Staughton Lynd, C. L. R. James, and Carlos Cortez.