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.

Alexander Howard is Lecturer in Writing Studies at the University of Sydney, Australia.

Introduction: Water from a Bucket or, the the Hidden Modernist Histories of Charles Henri Ford
Chapter 1: Blues and the Belated Renovation of Modernism
Chapter 2: Community, Circularity, Sociability, Postcards
Chapter 3: Building Up and Breaking Down: Surrealism, New York, New Criticism
Chapter 4: Spare Parts, or, Caught Between Pop and a Historical Hard Place
Chapter 5: Multitudes, Mirrors, Crystals, Haiku, Home
Conclusion: 'I Will Be What I Am' or, the Camp Modernist Legacy of Charles Henri Ford
Bibliography
Index