@article {9484, title = {From a "Garden of Disorder to a "Nest of Flames": Charles Henri Ford{\textquoteright}s Surrealist Inflections}, journal = {Miranda: Revue pluridisciplinaire du monde anglophone}, volume = {14}, year = {2017}, abstract = {Virtually omitted from established narratives of American modernism, yet central in the histories of the reception of European Surrealism in the US, Charles Henri Ford{\textquoteright}s life and work have been recovered in important queer genealogies within Anglo-American modernism. Yet within this process or recovery, Ford{\textquoteright}s poetic work is still largely overlooked, and this may have to do less with its marked Surrealist influences and/or derivative aspects than with the somewhat unclassifiable and composite texture of Ford{\textquoteright}s poems. This article revisits Ford{\textquoteright}s early poetry as a space of convergence and dialogue between distinct yet interrelated poetics: from the 1938\ A Garden of Disorder\ to the 1949,\ Sleep in a Nest of Flames,\ a queer subjectivity assimilates concurrently Surrealist poetics and Djuna Barnes{\textquoteright}s equally unclassifiable queer modernism with and against American poetic modernisms.}, url = {https://miranda.revues.org/9822} }