about This: Collected Poems of Frank Stanford (Copper Canyon Press, 2015), the poet Dean Young described Stanford's poetry as, "something authentically raw, even brutal, which seems both very old and utterly new, its vitality coming from roots that sink deep into the primitive well-springs of art and the mud of the human heart and mind." In a 2015 review for The New York Times, Dwight Garner says "Since Mr. Stanford's death, his cult has grown, but it's never come close to metastasizing. In large part, that's because his work has been hard to find, issued by tiny presses and often out of print. The long-awaited publication this month of What About This: The Collected Poems of Frank Stanford gives us a chance to see him whole. It introduces to a broader audience an important and original American poet." Bibliography The Singing Knives (Mill Mountain Press, 1971; Lost Roads, 1979, 2008) Ladies From Hell (Mill Mountain Press, 1974) Shade (Mill Mountain Press, 1975) Field Talk (Mill Mountain Press, 1975) Arkansas Bench Stone (Mill Mountain Press, 1975) Constant Stranger (Mill Mountain Press, 1976) The Battlefield Where The Moon Says I Love You (Mill Mountain Press/Lost Roads, 1977; Lost Roads, 2000) Crib Death (Ironwood Press, 1978) You (Lost Roads, 1979, 2008) Conditions Uncertain And Likely To Pass Away (Lost Roads, 1990) The Light The Dead See: Selected Poems of Frank Stanford (University of Arkansas Press, 1991) What About This: The Collected Poems of Frank Stanford (Copper Canyon Press, April 14, 2015) Hidden Water: From The Frank Stanford Archives (Third Man Books, July 21, 2015) Notes External links Frank Stanford bibliography at Verdant Press Frank Stanford Papers. Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. 20th-century American poets 1948 births 1978 suicides Multiple gunshot suicides People from Eureka Springs, Arkansas People from Richton, Mississippi Poets from Arkansas Poets from Mississippi Poets from Missouri Suicides by firearm in Arkansas