Frank Stanford

Frank Stanford
Born
Francis Gildart Smith

(1948-08-01)August 1, 1948
DiedJune 3, 1978(1978-06-03) (aged 29)
OccupationPoet
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Frank Stanford (born Francis Gildart Smith; August 1, 1948 – June 3, 1978) was an American poet. He is most known for his epic, The Battlefield Where The Moon Says I Love You – a labyrinthine poem without stanzas or punctuation. In addition, Stanford published six shorter books of poetry throughout his twenties, and three posthumous collections of his writings (as well as a book of selected poems) have also been published.