Ebook {Epub PDF} The Light the Dead See: Selected Poems by Frank Stanford

Free 2-day shipping on qualified orders over $ Buy The Light the Dead See: Selected Poems of Frank Stanford (Paperback) at www.doorway.rund: Frank Stanford. Within a year of his death, two posthumous collections were published. At the time of this death, as Leon Stokesbury asserts in his introduction, “Stanford was the best poet in America under the age of thirty-five.” The Light the Dead See collects the best work from those nine volumes and six previously unpublished poems. In the earlier poems, Stanford creates a world where he could keep childhood /5(23). The Light the Dead See: Selected Poems. Between , when he published his first book, The Signing Knives, and , when he died at the age of twenty-nine, Frank Stanford published seven volumes of poetry. Within a year of his death, two posthumous collections were published/5.

unique poet by editing The Light the Dead See: Selected Poems of Frank Stanford (The University of Arkansas Press, May ). On June 3, , in Fayetteville, Arkansas, Stanford took his own life. His death took place almost exactly one hundred years after Mark Twain started work on The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, a book about an. Dean Young's introduction offers imaginative praise of Stanford ("Imagine Vallejo growing up in a tent on the Mississippi"), but Leon Stokesbury's introduction to The Light the Dead See: Selected Poems of Frank Stanford (University of Arkansas Press, ), provides a fuller biography and stronger context for the poems. The Light the Dead See collects the best work from those nine volumes and six previously unpublished poems. In the earlier poems, Stanford creates a world where he could keep childhood alive, deny time and mutability, and place a version of himself at the center of great myth and drama.

Free 2-day shipping on qualified orders over $ Buy The Light the Dead See: Selected Poems of Frank Stanford (Paperback) at www.doorway.ru Univ of Arkansas Pr, Paperback. New. first trade paperback printing. edition. pages. xx inches. The light grows, a white flower. It becomes very intense, like music. They see the faces of those they loved, The truly dead who speak kindly. They see their father sitting in a field. The harvest is over and his cane chair is mended. There is a towel around his neck, The odor of bay rum. Then they see their mother.