This chapter examines Will Alexander’s renewal of the epic through surrealist strategies, positioning his work against a backdrop of space exploration and classical tradition, both teeming with imperialist residues. Alexander confronts the genre’s legitimating functions—especially the epic simile—while dismantling its ideological ties to conquest and mastery. In particular, his reworking of Virgil’s Aeneid reveals how epic’s conflation of civic order and natural force can be undone through surrealist disruption (especially non sequitur). Read alongside Lautréamont, Lorenzo Thomas, Nathaniel Mackey, and Harryette Mullen, Alexander’s long poems emerge as a counter-epic: expansive yet destabilizing, committed to liberatory “organic disorder.” Drawing on Aimé and Suzanne Césaire, the poet transforms surrealism into an “organic weapon,” reclaiming epic form from its Eurocentric and fascistic inheritances to imagine planetary, anti-colonial, and cosmic futures.