Frank Sanford Has Been Gone for 30 Years. We Miss You Frank.

On June 3, 1978, the Arkansas poet Frank Stanford committed suicide by shooting himself three times with a .22 caliber pistol. Only 29 years old, he had already been hailed as a great new voice on the American scene, likened to Rimbaud and Ginsburg. Read from a large archive of Stanford's poems, essays and letters, and the first 30 lines of his epic, 15,000 line poem "The Battlefield Where The Moon Says I Love You." A fledgling Arkansas Times was one of the publications which marked Stanford's loss back in 1978 . See, Death of a Major Voice in Arkansas.
Thanks to Judge C.