Join us for a moderated discussion with Un
iversity of Arkansas Press authors James McWilliams and A. P. Walton. They
&rsquo\;ll be speaking about their recent works published by the Press:
Zach \;Harrod\, Stanford film documentarian\, will moderate. Books will be available for purchase. The authors will sign books following the program.
\nThis event will be livestreamed. Watch it here &rarr\;
\n"Frank Stanford was one of the most recognized a nd prolific emerging poets of his generation until his suicide at the age of twenty-nine. Though all but two of his books remain out of print\, his poems\, which pitch startling and often surreal imagery against stark Sout hern landscapes\, have sustained Stanford&rsquo\;s reputation and influenc e among poets who knew him during his lifetime and have ushered in a resur gence of admirers among a new generation of poets." - Encyclopedia of Arka nsas
\nJames McWilliams \;is the aut hor of \;The Life and Poetry of Frank Stanford (Finalist\, 20 26 Pulitzer Prize for Biography). His writing has appeared in \;Ox ford American\, \;Virginia Quarterly Review\, \; Harper&rsquo\;s Magazine\, and \;The Paris Review. A win ner of the Hiett Prize in the Humanities\, he is professor of history at T exas State University.
\nA. P. Walton\, \;a poet\, studied liter ature at Lund University\, where he authored a seminal thesis on Frank Sta nford. He is the editor of \;Letters of a Poet Dying \;(2 026)\, the first-ever edition of Stanford&rsquo\;s selected letters.
\nMcWilliams and Walton co-edited Stanford's The Battlefield Where th e Moon Says I Love You. "A one-of-a-kind outlaw epic\, \;The Batt lefield \;has hidden in the literary shadows for half a century as a m ystical artifact. Now\, in this first scholarly edition\, Stanford&rsquo\; s visionary masterpiece returns\, fortified by the editorial precision and contextual care it deserves." - University of Arkansas Press
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