Charles Henri Ford

Major Works

• Water From a Bucket; A Diary, 1948 – 1957, with an introduction by Lynne Tillman. (Turtle Point Press 2001)
• Out of the Labyrinth (2001)
• Emblems of Arachne (1986)
• Om Krishna III (1982)
• Om Krishna II : from the sickroom of the Walking Eagles (1981)
  
• Om Krishna I: special effects (1972)
  
• Flag of ecstasy: Selected poems (1972)
  
• Silver Flower Coo (1968)
  
• Spare Parts (1966)
  
• Sleep in a nest of flames: [Poems] (1949)
• The Half Thoughts (1947)
  
• Poems for Painters (1945)
  
• The Overturned Lake (1941)
  
• A Pamphlet of Sonnets (Caravel Press, 1936)
• The Garden of Disorder and Other Poems (1938)
• Charles Henri Ford: Photographs, 1930-1960 — by Gerard Malanga (Editor), Steven Watson (Editor)
• The Young & Evil    novel (1933)
• View: Parade of the Avant-Garde : An Anthology of View Magazine (1940-1947)
• Eight words

Biography

Charles Henri Ford was born in 1908 in Hazlehurst, Mississippi. He was a poet, photographer, editor, film maker, painter, and graphic artist. In his early twenties, he started his first magazine, Blues, which was published in Columbus, Mississippi, where he was living. He helped introduce surrealism to America. He was the creator of View magazine. He died in 2002 at 94  in New York City. He lived in Manhattan and had a house in Katmandu.  He was Baptist but became Buddhist.

Bibliography

• Charles Henri Ford, 94, Prolific Poet, Artist, and Editor. New York Times (2002)

Related Websites

• Online Interviews with Charles Henri Ford. Modern American Poetry
• Poems, book jackets, title pages, View magazine, and more for Charles Henri Ford
• Journal of Contemporary Art: Charles Henri Ford Has long interview with Ford
• The beginning of gay lit: Charles Henri Ford and Parker Tyler’s The Young and Evil, by Neal Pearson