Hidden Water

From the Frank Stanford Archives

Frank Stanford, Michael Wiegers, Chet Weise , Steve Stern

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Third Man Books
01 October 2015

Literary studies: from c 1900 -; Literary studies: poetry & poets

""""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

""It is astounding to me that I was not even aware of this accomplished and moving poet. There is a great deal of pain on the poems, but it is a pain that makes sense, a tragic pain whose meaning rises from the way the poems are so firmly molded and formed from within.""-James Wright

Hidden Water: From the Frank Stanford Archivesis 200 pages of unpublished poems,photographs, artwork, and facsimiles of typesheets, handwrtten drafts, and letters.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 Water complements Copper Canyon Press's definitive Frank Stanford collection What About Thisis a must for any lover of Stanford.

My wallet was thick as the bible I carried around Graphs of Elvis Presley John Lee Hooker Brigitte Bardot and the sodbuster Burns I thought up nom-de-plumes in the outhouse and sent off for things cryptic ads I used stamps that made the postmaster ask where I was from

Born in 1948, Frank Stanford was a prolific poet known for his originality and ingenuity. He has been dubbed ""a swamprat Rimbaud"" by Lorenzo Thomas and ""one of the great voices of death"" by Franz Wright. He grew up in Mississippi, Tennessee, and then Arkansas, where he lived for most of his life and wrote many of his most powerful poems. Stanford died in 1978. He authored over ten books of poetry, including eight volumes in the last seven years of his life.

By: Frank Stanford
Foreword by: Steve Stern
Edited by: Michael Wiegers, Chet Weise
Imprint: Third Man Books
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 209mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 18mm
Weight: 481g
ISBN: 9780991336135
ISBN 10: 0991336135
Pages: 200
Publication Date: 01 October 2015
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Frank Stanford (1948-1978) was a prolific poet known for his originality and ingenuity. He has been dubbed ""a swamprat Rimbaud"" by Lorenzo Thomas and ""one of the great voices of death"" by Franz Wright. He grew up in Mississippi, Tennessee, and then Arkansas, where he lived for most of his life and wrote many of his most powerful poems. Steve Stern's novels and story collections include Lazar Malkin Enters Heaven, which won the Edward Lewis Wallant Award for Jewish fiction, and The Wedding Jester, which won the National Jewish Book Award. His stories have been included in the Pushcart and O.Henry Prize anthologies. Editor, translator and publisher, Michael Wiegers's previous titles include This Art, The Poet's Child, and Reversible Monuments: Contemporary Mexican Poetry (co-edited with Monica de la Torre). He is poetry editor of Narrative Magazine, and serves as Executive Editor at Copper Canyon Press.