What About This
Collected Poems of Frank Stanford
by Frank Stanford

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• Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
• Format: hardcover, 764 pages
• ISBN: 9781556594687 (1556594682)
• Author: Frank Stanford
• Awards: National Book Critics Circle Award Nominee for Poetry (2015), Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Poetry (2015)
• Release date: April 14, 2015
• Genres: poetry, collections, literature, fiction
• Language: english

About The Book

«I don’t believe in tame poetry… Poetry busts guts.» —Frank Stanford

The poetry publishing event of the season, this six-hundred-plus page book highlights the arc of Frank Stanford’s all-too-brief and incandescently brilliant career.

Despite critical praise and near-mythic status as a poet, Frank Stanford’s oeuvre has never fully been unified. The mystery and legend surrounding his life — and his suicide before the age of thirty — has made it nearly impossible to fully and accurately celebrate his body of work. Until now.

This welcome and necessary volume includes hundreds of previously unpublished poems, a short story, an interview, and is richly illustrated with draft poems, photographs, and odd ephemera.

As Dean Young writes in the Foreword to the book: «Many of these poems seem as if they were written with a burnt stick. With blood in river mud… Frank Stanford, demonically prolific, approaches the poem not as an exercise of rhetoric or a puzzle of signifiers but as a man ‘looking for his own tongue’ in a knife-fight with a ghost.»

When It’s After Dark

I steal

all the light bulbs

and hide them like eggs

in a basket

going to some outlaw

I put on the best I can find

I cover them with a swatch

of something

that swells like a bite

that bleeds green

cloth that smells

of a feed store

but looks

to of been worn

I go over to nasty willy’s bridge

and throw them into the creek

there in the shade I listen

for them

to make nests to escape

agony and burst

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