CARAVEL No. 6

will contain a section devoted entirely to
young English writers, especially edited by
*Oswell Blakeston*. Among contributors are:

DYLAN THOMAS JOHN PUDNEY

RONALD DEWSBURY RAYNER HEPPENSTALL

ROGER BURFORD RANDALL SWINGLER

EDGAR FOXALL and others

Among American contributors in *Caravel* 6 are:

WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS SYDNEY SALT

EMANUEL CARNEVALI JOE GOULD

CHARLES HENRI FORD PARKER TYLER

and others

Side of Paradise' by Fitzgerald created his generation."

CARAVEL Magazine is to be edited hereafter by Jean Rivers, Sydney Salt and Charles Henri Ford. Manuscripts for the *Caravel* may be submitted to Mr. Ford, 21 West Eighth Street, New York City. The magazine will continue to be published in Majorca.

CHARLES HENRI FORD'S new novel, "Life of a Child," is announced for publication in the very near future by The Vanguard Press.

ORDER YOUR COPY of "A Pamphlet of Sonnets" NOW! Mail *One Dollar* or *Fifteen Francs* to: Caravel, C. Jardin K-7, Alicante, Spain.

# A PAMPHLET OF SONNETS

by CHARLES HENRI FORD

With a Drawing by

PAVEL TCHELITCHEW

THE CARAVEL PRESS, Majorca, announces
for immediate publication "A Pamphlet of
Sonnets."

THE SONNET has been the bulwark of
the conventionally old and literary, but
Charles Henri Ford breathes new life into the
sonnet and makes it a current and vital factor
in contemporary poetry.

HORACE GREGORY has said of Ford: "If
we speak of style at all in contemporary
writing, I think that Charles Henri Ford is one
of the very few men living who may be re-
garded as a genuine innovator."

PRIVATE SUBSCRIPTION to "A Pamphlet of
Sonnets," limited to the first fifty copies, num-
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CHARLES HENRI FORD began his literary
career as editor of *Blues*. His work has ap-
peared in *Caravel, transition, Poetry, New
Masses*, and numerous other reviews, as well
as in the anthologies "Americans Abroad"
and "Modern Things."

GERTRUDE STEIN said of the novel written
by Charles Henri Ford and Parker Tyler: "The
Young and Evil' creates this generation as This

The enclosed poem is dedicated to a young man who introduced himself to you one afternoon at the Harlem recreational Center - do you remember? If The African publishes poetry, I'd like to submit this...

2 rue Jacques Mawas

July 8 1938

Dear Claude,

Your letter mailed June 4 to my New York address has just reached me here. Sorry I couldn't have talked with you and Countee Cullen about the magazine - are you editing it from now on or was it for only one number? I would like to contribute but the idea of writing an article doesn't interest me as much as this: just before leaving NY I was looking over some old papers to pack and came across a journal that I kept most of the time, or half the time, in Tangier. There was quite a bit of it, in longhand, and reading it over five years after it was written made me think it more interesting than it was just after it was written. There was quite a bit about Madrid, recalled after settling in Tangier. Don't you think some extracts from the thing might be good to print? It could be headed: SPAIN AND SPANISH MOROCCO:1932. But the trouble is, I won't be able to get at it until returning to NY in October. Let me hear more about the *African* and do send me a copy.

Tchelitchew's exhibition of his big picture "Phenomena" created waves of talk & print in London; we're returning there in a brief space to see rehearsals of new Massine ballet, with music by Hinemith which Tchelitchew has done decor & costumes for. After that, want to go to Dalmatian coast for a month or so. I'm working on an idea for a play, incidentally.

My sister, Ruth, was over here too but was recalled by Mercury theatre to start rehearsals in Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest, which should be very amusing.

My book The Garden of Disorder will be issued in America under New Directions imprint - I've had letters of priase from Wallace Stevens, Marianne Moore, Herbert Read (author of Poetry & Anarchism) and others. Miss Moore picked out the poem PLAINT (Before a Mob of 10,000 at Owensboro, Ky.) for special comment. Shall I have a review copy sent to The African? Would like very much to have a criticism either from you or Countee Cullen.

Let me hear straightaway!

Charles Henri Ford
2 rue Jacques Mawas
Paris (XVe) France

NOT ALLERGIC TO MISCEGENATION

for Kaie Deei

Trapeze artist slow-motion boomerang
from bushman to Washington
bells of your blood rang
in the ears of the net of Neither

Became a porter, robin red-cap,
toting the grips of both: in one
a priest with his own idea of heaven,
the other: communist:
but his own ideas of earth

Mixed them in a chinaberry breeze
to ruffle the birthday of a parrot
perched on father-fantasies;

Then tried jiu-jitsu on the Brooklyn Bridge,
married a world with common-sense.
Call it poetry, call it a parrot,
or call it the art of self-defense; -

blood the slayer lies with blood the slain:
swarm my net, meet my train.

Charles Henri Ford

PLAINT
Before a Mob of 10,000 at Owensboro, Ky.

I, Rainey Betha, 22,
From the top-branch of Race-hatred look at you.
My limbs are bound, though boundless the bright sun
Like my bright blood which had to run
Into the orchard that excluded me:
Now I climb Death's tree.
The pruning-hooks of many mouths
Cut the black-leaved boughs.
The robins of my eyes hover where
Sixteen leaves fall that were a prayer:
Sixteen mouths are open wide:
The minutes like black cherries
Drop from my shady side.
Oh who is the gardener must tend such a tree, Lord?
Do angels pick the cherry-blood of folk like me, Lord?