A Pulitzer Prize winner best known as an imagist, John Gould Fletcher experimented with every facet of Modernist poetry and influenced poets in both England and the United States. this is the first collection to span his entire career, and brings again to the public eye work that has been unavailable for thirty-five years.

Fletcher is responsible for introducing Ezra Pound to French symbolism, and Amy Lowell to polyphonic prose, and his connection with the Southern Fugitive Agrarian movement adds to his significance as the first modern Southern poet. The editors have chosen...

As one of the first American literary expatriates and as a central figure in both the Imagist and the Fugitive-Agrarian movements, John Gould Fletcher occupies a special place in modern literary history. In "The Autobiography of John Gould Fletcher" (first published in 1937, one year before he won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry), Fletcher relates in rich detail the events of an astonishingly productive literary life that brought him recognition on both sides of the Atlantic. His narrative displays an acutely perceptive insider s view of the vibrant English and American literary scenes...

Like a well-planned time capsule, "Arkansas" is a fascinating picture of the state s evolution: from a wilderness explored by Hernando de Soto to a rowdy and often lawless frontier, a partner in the shameful dislocation of Native Americans, a state in the Confederacy, a source of homegrown populists, and always a land of opportunity.

As Harry S. Ashmore states in his introduction to this third volume of the John Gould Fletcher Series, "Arkansas" still stands up as its author intended, a poet s imaginative treatment of a history both tragic and comic with its deep legendary roots going...