Stanford, Frank: Hidden Water: From the Frank Stanford Archives

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Edited by Michael Wiegers & Chet Weise. Third Man Books (paperback, 2015)

Publisher Marketing:Hidden Water: From the Frank Stanford Archivesis 200 pages of unpublished poems, photographs, artwork, and facsimiles of typesheets, handwritten drafts, and letters. A preface is written by editor Michael Wiegers and an appreciation by Stanford’s friend Steve Stern. The book also includes downloadable audio of special guests reading Stanford’s poetry.Hidden Watercomplements Copper Canyon Press’s definitive Frank Stanford collectionWhat About Thisandis a must for any lover of Stanford.

“”The big event in poetry for 2015 will likely be the long-awaited resurrection of Frank Stanford, a legendary badass from Arkansas, much of whose poetry has been unavailable since his suicide at the age of 29 in 1978… Stanford was a hell of a metaphor-maker and simile-slinger, and could cast a spell of extreme intensity with a flick of his wrist.”– NPR.org

“His love poems can sound like the cry of an angel falling backward through an open window, to borrow Dwight Yoakam’s line about Roy Orbison’s voice. . . . Mr. Stanford could lose his heart without blowing his cool.” —New York Times