* The publication of Frank Stanford’s Collected Poems will be one of the most talked-about poetry publishing events of 2015 * Men’s Journal has confirmed a 2500 word piece in Spring 2015 * A cult figure in American poetry, Stanford’s generations of readers are fiercely loyal and are champing at the bit to get ahold of a collected volume * Stanford’s work was tangled in rights issues for nearly four decades, until Copper Canyon successfully appealed to the rights holders and negotiated the publication of this book * The book will contain an abundance of previously unpublished poems, an unpublished short story, selections from Stanford’s magnum opus, as well as various ephemera, including holograph poems, edited drafts, doodles, etc…
* Hard to beat this quote from Stanford:
I don’t believe in tame poetry… Poetry busts guts.
* Called a swamp rat Rimbaud by Lorenzo Thomas and one of the great voices of death by Franz Wright * Stanford was an award winning filmmaker * He avoided academia, instead working as a land surveyor

magazine under a pseudonym. * Stanford’s papers are at the Beinecke Rare Books Library at Yale