Meeting with Breton and the Surrealist Group were intensely energizing experiences for me, and it seemed only natural to equate the energy they gave me with surrealism itself. Nothing less than the direct experience of poetry as it is lived in the moment. Encounters of all kinds are the substance of this book, especially chance encounters, and the diverse experiences which developed out of them. . . Signs and symbols of our complete nonconformism and revolt, such encounters mark the rhythm of the poetic life. Surrealism is also a way of challenging one's self, of transcending all rationalized excuses for saying yes to miserabilism and tolerating the intolerable.
Surrealism is what happens when poetry and life dare to be one and the same.