Description: "The Life and Poetry of Frank Stanford offers for the first time a comprehensive study of Stanford's life and work, introducing to a broad readership poetry that remains both captivating to poets and, in its celebration of everyday experience over academic erudition, accessible to those who rarely read poetry."--Provided by publisher.
Review Quotes: "In his monumental new book about Stanford, straightforwardly titled The Life and Poetry of Frank Stanford and published by the University of Arkansas Press on July 1, McWilliams leads with the horrible and well-documented circumstances of Stanford's suicide. This structural choice -- a correct one, I believe -- confronts the aura and mythology of tortured genius early. Over the next 500 pages, McWilliams then proceeds to spool out in rich, fascinating and sometimes disturbing detail the course of Stanford's brief but astonishingly productive poetic life."
--Jay Jennings, Arkansas Times, July 2025