Mary Ann Caws

Mary Ann Caws is Distinguished Professor of English, French, and Comparative Literature, and Emerita and Resident Professor at the Graduate School of the City University of New York. She has translated and written on many surrealist writers including André Breton, René Char, Paul Eluard, Salvador Dalí, and Pablo Picasso.

Mary Ann Caws

Mary Ann Caws is Distinguished Professor of English, French, and Comparative Literature, and Emerita and Resident Professor at the Graduate School of the City University of New York. She has translated and written on many surrealist writers including André Breton, René Char, Paul Eluard, Salvador Dalí, and Pablo Picasso.

Books by Mary Ann Caws

  • The Milk Bowl of Feathers: Essential Surrealist Writings

    Mary Ann Caws

    Paperback, 2018

    An exciting new collection of the essential writings of surrealism, the European avant-garde movement of the mind’s deepest powers
  • The Milk Bowl of Feathers: Essential Surrealist Writings

    Mary Ann Caws

    E Book, 2018

    An exciting new collection of the essential writings of surrealism, the European avant-garde movement of the mind’s deepest powers
  • Selected Poems of René Char

    Rene Char, Mary Ann Caws, Tina Jolas, Mary Ann Caws

    Paperback, 1992

    “This is a fine, bilingual edition of the works of one of the great French Surrealists. . . . The translations, by several hands, serve Char well—full of insinuating rhythms and unusual verbal...
  • Selected Poems of René Char

    Rene Char, Mary Ann Caws, Tina Jolas, Mary Ann Caws

    E Book, 2016

    “This is a fine, bilingual edition of the works of one of the great French Surrealists. . . . The translations, by several hands, serve Char well—full of insinuating rhythms and unusual verbal...