Charles Henri Ford

Between Modernism and Postmodernism

By: Alexander Howard, Erik Tonning (Editor), Matthew Feldman (Editor)

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Paperback | 29 November 2018

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264 Pages

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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. Charles Henri Ford: Between Modernism and Postmodernism 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.

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Alexander Howard's pathbreaking study of the life and work of the sadly neglected Charles Henri Ford is much more than a simple recuperation of lost value. It dextrously navigates the categorial coral reefs growing up over the wrecks of modernism and postmodernism both, and establishes some eye-opening passages between and among them, where the reef-fish teem and school. Howard's Ford is a multiform experimentalist, queer icon, regional surrealist, late-modernist mentor, and sociable internationalist, who tirelessly offered his 'torsional' character to those movements and causes that could use his energy. His longevity turns out to be a key to the broken clocks of modernity, with which he tinkered and played in an amazing series of works to which we now have the most reliable guide.
Julian Murphet, Ph.D. FAHA, Scientia Professor in English and Film Studies, Director, Centre for Modernism Studies in Australia, School of the Arts and Media, UNSW Australia

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