Germain claims that Ford was “America’s surrealist poet” and that he “creates the wonder, the wit, and the erotic beauty that have made surrealism the most significant of all modern influences upon poetry” (qtd. Due to the confluence of his own Surrealist poetry and View (1940-1947), Ford became the leading American Surrealist voice in New York’s literary and art communities. Upon his return to New York with his partner/lover Pavel Tchelitchew, he founded the Surrealist magazine View in 1940. He subsequently moved to Paris, where he met Gertrude Stein and had an affair with Djuna Barnes. Ford gained more prominence in modernist publishing when he moved to New York and began to engage with modernist poets such as Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams. Charles Henri Ford’s emergence onto the modernist literary scene began in 1929 when Ford started publishing the little magazine, Blues: A Magazine of New Rhythms (1929-30).
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