Charles Henri Ford

The first American surrealist poet a prolific literary editor and a seminal influence on the New York School of poetry Charles Henri Ford was a key figure in the transition from late modernist to postmodern culture in America. <i>Charles Henri Ford: Between Modernism and Postmodernism </i>is the first book-length scholarly study of this important literary figure. Drawing on new archival research - including explorations of Ford's correspondence with the likes of Ezra Pound Gertrude Stein William Carlos Williams Parker Tyler and many others - the book explores the full impact of Ford's contribution to 20th-century American literary culture.