Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Prelude
Object Lessons and Talismans
Objecting with Dada
Exquisite Essentials and the Cadavre Exquis
Beholding Nothing in Mallarmé
Mallarmé and Duchamp: Mirror, Stair, and Gaming Table
Poetics of the Poem-Object and Talisman: Mallarmé, Cornell, Dickinson, and Breton
Casting a Talismanic Spell with Raymond Roussel, Méret Oppenheim, Antonin Artaud, Victor Brauner, and Gherasim Luca
Dorothea Tanning: The Poetry of Door 84
Elspeth Halvorsen: An Intimate Cosmos
Imaginations and Scandals

Voice and Voyage with Robert Desnos
Snail Time: Duchamp, Mina Loy, Pablo Echaurren, Arakawa Gins, Thom Gunn
How to House the Surrealist Imagination?
André Masson: A Mythology of Desire
Cornell and Duchamp: Bubbles and Brightness in Surrealism
Photography, Poetry, and Painting
Dora Maar: Photographer-Painter-Poet, and a Certain Baroque
Ladies Shot and Painted: Female Embodiment in Surrealist Art
These Photographing Women: The Scandal of Genius
An Erotics of Representation: Fashioning the Icon with Man Ray
Kay Sage: Rather Extraordinary All Around

Personalities and Presentations
Malcolm de Chazal, Visionary
Alice (Paalen) Rahon: A Surrealist Multiple and Mysterious
Wilhelm Freddie: Againstness Wins Out
Re-Cognizing Hedda Sterne: The Last of the Irascibles
Jacqueline Lamba, Aube Elléouët-Breton, and Ondine: Art and Letters
Unica Zürn: Beyond Bizarre
Joyce Mansour in Double Time
Gathering: Some Women Poets, Performers, and Painters
Encounter with "Surrealism Beyond Borders"
Endnotes
Notes on Sources
Acknowledgments
Photo Acknowledgments