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Charles Henri Ford was born in 1913 in Brookhaven,
Mississippi. In 1929, he edited Blues: A Magazine of
New Rhythms, a journal which featured the works of
Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams,
H.D. and James Farrell, among others. Associated with
the modern movement in Paris and New York from 1930s,
Ford is co-author of The Young and Evil, a book which
was originally banned in England and the United
States, and of which Gertrude Stein remarked "(the
novel) creates this generation as This Side of
Paradise by Fitzgerald created his generation."
Through the 1940s, Ford edited and published View, an
arts and poetry magazine. Contributors included a
number of major artists, including Duchamp, Chagall,
Mondrian, Breton, Calder, Joseph Cornell, Florine
Stettheimer and Georgia O'Keefe, among many others.
Later work included a show of paintings in Paris and a
cinematic project, Johnny Minotaur, filmed on the
Island of Crete. His work in PATH was selected from
Out of the Labyrinth: Selected Poems (1990).
Forthcoming collections will include I Will Be What I
Am (Southern Illinois University Press).