The Battlefield Where the Moon Says I Love You
- Fayetteville, AR: Mill Mountain Press / Lost Roads, No. 7-12, 1977
Fayetteville, AR: Mill Mountain Press / Lost Roads, No. 7-12, 1977. First edition. Near Fine. A Near Fine copy of this scarce and important work of modern poetry. Publisher's white pictorial wrappers reproducing a harrowing Vietnam War photograph. Some rubbing to back cover and an ink stain to inside of front cover (not visible from exterior). A very appealing copy of a book that is not often found in this condition.
A Southern poet who was prolific during his all-too-brief career, Frank Stanford (1948 - 1978) published his magnum opus, The Battlefield Where the Moon Says I Love You, the year before his suicide. This 542-page stream-of-consciousness poem, written in one sentence, has reached cult status among poets, and has earned Stanford comparisons to Whitman and Rimbaud. To this day, the epic poem is considered a creative marvel, and has reached even greater acclaim since its publication in a new edition in 2000. Of Battlefield, the poet John Berryman proclaimed, "Most poets would give their left eye to have written this." Near Fine.
A Southern poet who was prolific during his all-too-brief career, Frank Stanford (1948 - 1978) published his magnum opus, The Battlefield Where the Moon Says I Love You, the year before his suicide. This 542-page stream-of-consciousness poem, written in one sentence, has reached cult status among poets, and has earned Stanford comparisons to Whitman and Rimbaud. To this day, the epic poem is considered a creative marvel, and has reached even greater acclaim since its publication in a new edition in 2000. Of Battlefield, the poet John Berryman proclaimed, "Most poets would give their left eye to have written this." Near Fine.