Awards and Uses of His Work
Ford received the 1966 Alice Fay di Castagnola Award of the Poetry Society of America for his work in progress A Landscape for Dante. He also received a Distinguished Alumni Citation from the University of Arkansas (1966) and the Devins Memorial Award, which included the publication of his volume Looking for Shiloh by the University of Missouri Press.
Readers are now most likely to meet with Ford's poetry in two places. His sonnet "Return to Pea Ridge" was read when Pea Ridge National Military Park was dedicated and is now to be seen on a plaque there. Also, Vladimir Nabokov quoted two lines from Ford's sonnet "The Image of Desire" in the novel Pale Fire.
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