“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 …
“[A] provocative reinterpretation of poetry’s function…Here is devastating meta-poetry for the board gameplaying, smartphone-scrolling masses, both accessible and enlightened.”Publisher’s WeeklyI am of my times and you screengrab out of ancient nowhere, the title of one of the poems in Starkweather’s second collection, PAIN: The Board Game, perfectly capture both his utter contemporariness and his empathetic treatment of our …