WHAT ABOUT THIS • The Collected Poems of Frank Stanford
Copper Canyon Press / 2015
Hardcover / 764 pages
“What About This marks a rare moment, when a critical and completely original American voice is recovered after decades and takes its rightful place in the canon…Now that the work is finally available, the real risk is that Stanford’s poetic legacy will play second fiddle to the myth of his life and death. The beautiful young suicide is a hard narrative to shake….What About This offers the fullness of both the work and the image, and leaves it to readers to decide what they will value most.”—Jay Deshpande, The New Republic
︎ Condition note: New
Copper Canyon Press / 2015
Hardcover / 764 pages
“What About This marks a rare moment, when a critical and completely original American voice is recovered after decades and takes its rightful place in the canon…Now that the work is finally available, the real risk is that Stanford’s poetic legacy will play second fiddle to the myth of his life and death. The beautiful young suicide is a hard narrative to shake….What About This offers the fullness of both the work and the image, and leaves it to readers to decide what they will value most.”—Jay Deshpande, The New Republic
︎ Condition note: New