calsfoundation@cals.org
November 7, 2012
Although Edsel Ford did not arrive in the Arkansas Ozarks until the age of eleven, he lived most of his adult life in the region, consistently incorporated its culture into his writing, and became one of its most distinguished poets. At the time of his death, at the age of forty-one in 1970, he was a well-established regional poet who was beginning to earn national literary attention. Shown here is the cover for his 1961 book A Thicket of Sky.