Surrealpolitik: Collected Poems

New York: The Overlook Press (2007, first published in 2004)

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A collection of Auster's poems, mostly written when he was in his twenties, and Auster's translations of poems by the original surrealists: Andre Breton, Paul Eluard, Tristan Tzara, Philippe Soupault, Robert Desnos, Rene Char, Andre Du Bouchet, and Jacques Dupin.

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Never a body here always the murder without proof
Never the sky always the silence
Never freedom but for freedom
[extract from "No Grounds for Prosecution" by Andre Breton, translated by Paul Auster] (page 170)
Tags: [Surrealism, Literary/Poetic, Crime/Noir]