"Robert Desnos, Surrealism, and the Marvelous in Everyday Life is bound to revolutionize and invigorate the field of surrealist studies. Conley proposes a succinct reading of Desnos's poetics as well as a new approach to 'everyday life' in surrealist communities: she unveils a new role of the surrealist poet as a mediator of popular culture and as a popular intellectual."–Martine Antle, author of The Rhetoric of the Other: Lesbian and Gay Strategies of Resistance in French and Francophone Contexts