Selected Writings of Benjamin Peret Benjamin Peret an Rachel Stella (editor) Benjamin Peret was a Surrealist's Surrealist: "the greatest living poet" according to Paul Eluard. This collection brings his anarchic humor and savage imagination fully into English: three novels, short stories, poetry, polemical prose, bibliographies, and unclassifiable texts such as the "Calender of Tolerable Inventions from around the World." A guidebook to impertinence.