The Light the Dead See (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Frank Stanford
- First Published: 1991
- Type of Work: Poetry
- Genres: Poetry
- Subjects: Blacks, Sex or sexuality, Suicide, Murder or homicide, South or Southerners, Religion, Violence, Pain, Death or dying, Torture
The Light the Dead See offers readers Arkansas poet Frank Stanford’s best work: those sometimes dreamlike, many times nightmarish excursions into a mythic Southland, a cruel and rapacious Southern United States where personae maim and kill out of an unnamed obsession in hopes of reclaiming their youth and their lost paradise.
This volume is not for the squeamish. There is madness here and terror: thievery, malice, and murder alongside a strange kind of redemption brought by the blacks who populate most of the poems, people with such names as Born in the Camp with Six...
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