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The Singing Knives: Poems

by Frank Stanford

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Frank Stanford was an Arkansas poet who died in 1978 at the age of 29. Thankfully, much of his work has been preserved and republished since then, despite the poet's shamefully small audience. His work is like a dark, gothic country song full of yearning and strange hallucinatory language. The Singing Knives is one of his most startling.
Recommended by Kevin Sampsell, Powell's City of Books

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Review:

"In short, The Singing Knives might be best described as:

Quentin Tarantino, David Lynch and Jim Jarmusch collaborate to direct and write a script for a psychological thriller about fishing, hunting and butchering starring the cast of the grown up little rascals who have matured into bloodthirsty criminals." Victor Schnickelfritz, The Great American Pinup

Review:

"It is astonishing to me that I was not even aware of this superbly accomplished and moving poet. There is a great deal of pain in the poems, but it is a pain that makes sense, a tragic pain whose meaning rises from the way the poems are so firmly molded and formed from within." James Wright

Product Details

ISBN:
9780918786555
Subtitle:
Poems
Publisher:
Lost Roads Publishers
Author:
Stanford, Frank
Publication Date:
2008-02-01
Binding:
Paperback
Language:
English

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