Talk:Penelope Rosemont

message: I realize that I am significantly tardy to the party, but I do want to weigh in so that this type of controversy does not happen again with things being taken up and taken down constantly from her page.  It is my understanding that if something is written in one's memoirs, it is generally taken on faith that the person has told the truth unless it is actively disproven.  I know that is a taken-for-granted fact among American Surrealists that the Rosemonts did visit Paris and did receive the "transmission" from Breton.  Penelope Rosemont mentions that in several of her books as does Franklin. Until someone can disprove that as a hoax, which no one has so far to my knowledge, she should be taken at her word.  In order to get around these "controversies" I have quoted from her books rather than referring to disputed outside sources such as letters that I personally haven't seen but that were published in the Rosemonts' book The Forecast is HOT! sometimes showing the addressed postcaard with signatures. As far as her being a Surrealist, if she calls herself one, practices Surrealist artistic, writing, and political practices, then she is.  She is well-accepted by any and all members of the American Surrealist movement.  She has contributed and written far too much about Surrealism to be denied the right to call herself a Surrealist. 
Also, she and Franklin published a good deal of material by the Paris Surrealists and others.  You can't just publish anyone you want willy-nilly.  You have to have the permission of the copyright holder.  Therefore they must have had contact with major Surrealists and their estates in order to publish their works in Arsenal or their imprint Black Swan Press.
 Fluffysingler (talk) 00:36, 29 March 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Vina, all your above information is wrong. Penelope Rosemont is inspired by surrealism. She never met Andre Breton, no matter how many bogus, "articles" you claim to show proof, there is no proof of their meeting. The open letter you refer to above is false information.Classicjupiter2 00:35, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: What is your basis of this claim that it's "false information" other than your well-documented anti-surrealism and dislike of the Surrealist Movement in the United States in particular?  Oh, I know, you will feign ignorance of what capital letters mean, and say that you can't tell the difference between the surrealist movement in the United States and The Surrealist Movement in the United States, but the question still stands.  --Daniel C. Boyer 19:13, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Surrealism

message: There's an apparent long running issue with the quality of the photo on this article between the subject and a contributor/photographer. While not a big issue, please be careful when editing this article, as the subject has broken several templates in repeated attempts to replace this image.  This image has now been removed from the article per her request in an OTRS ticket.  I have no interest in revisiting this.  
If the subject would like to upload a different photo, she should do so on .  Create an account and upload a new file, but please don't over-write the existing image file there.  A new photo file name may then be linked here, but probably should be done by editors not involved in this kerfuffle.
To the subject of this article and anyone else involved with the subject who may wish to edit this article: please read Wikipedia:Conflict of interest carefully before editing.  Ideally this suggests you should disclose your potential conflicts of interest on your user page, and propose changes on this talk page for other uninvolved editors to then make on the article. 
I'll now fix some formatting / tag errors broken in these edit conflicts, but will make no other changes to the article.  Thanks T L Miles (talk) 15:48, 1 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Conflict of interest/photo problems