At last it’s available again! The book that Gertrude Stein was mad about, and that was originally published by Obelisk Press in Paris, in 1933. Written by American poets, Charles Henri Ford and Parker Tyler, THE YOUNG AND EVIL tells the story of Julian and Karel and their friends, somewhere between the gay bars and poetry scenes of Greenwich Village, and the drag balls of Harlem. This queer coterie spends much of the time getting drunk at parties, swapping beds and apartments, avoiding the hostile attention of police and sailors that cruise the parks, meeting up at all-night ‘coffeepots’, generally looking fabulous in make-up and gowns, and – occasionally – creating art. A masterpiece proudly brought back to you by Metronome Press.

160 pages
English edition
ISBN 2-916262-01-6
€ 8,50

About the authors :

Charles Henri Ford, artist, poet, editor, and filmmaker was born in 1913 in Brookhaven, Mississippi, and died in 2002. Still in his teens, Ford published his first two poems in the New Yorker and following this success continued to publish poetry in various magazines. Ford dropped out of high school in 1929 in order to publish, together with Parker Tyler and Kathleen Tankersley, the low-key magazine Blues: A Magazine of New Rhythms, conceived as a vehicle for experimental writing. In 1931, Ford sailed for where he quickly ensconced himself in the expatriate literary community. In 1933, The Young and Evil, a novel, written together with Parker Tyler about the homosexual world of Greenwich Village in the early thirties, was published in Paris by Obelisk Press. From 1940 to 1947, Ford, again with Tyler, published another independent magazine View, centred around surrealist writing and painting. Perhaps prompted by his acquaintance with the denizens of Andy Warhol's Factory, Ford also made two movies: Poem Posters (1966) and Johnny Minotaur (1972).

Harrison Parker Tyler, better known as Parker Tyler was born March 6, 1904 in New Orleans and died in 1974. He was an author, poet and film critic. A writer for the journal Film Culture, Tyler is one of the few film critics to having writen extensively on experimental and underground film. His Screening the Sexes (1972) was the first book-length study of homosexuality in film.

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