{"product_id":"hidden-water-9780991336135","title":"Hidden Water","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“The big event in poetry for 2015 will likely be the long-awaited resurrection of Frank Stanford, a legendary badass from Arkansas, much of whose poetry has been unavailable since his suicide at the age of 29 in 1978… Stanford was a hell of a metaphor-maker and simile-slinger, and could cast a spell of extreme intensity with a flick of his wrist.”—NPR.org\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHis love poems can sound like the cry of an angel falling backward through an open window, to borrow Dwight Yoakam’s line about Roy Orbison’s voice. . . . Mr. Stanford could lose his heart without blowing his cool.” —New York Times\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt is astounding to me that I was not even aware of this accomplished and moving poet. There is a great deal of pain on 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\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eHidden Water: From the Frank Stanford\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Third Man Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49083783283031,"sku":"9780991336135","price":16.26,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/hidden-water-9780991336135","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}