The Life and Poetry of Frank Stanford Mary Thomas Crane and Olivia Villarreal

and Olivia Villarreal

dilemmas and questions of parents themselves involved in campaigning

Tracing the ideological origins and the politics of the child labor battle over the course of eighty years

but also a shared appetite for self-destruction that threatens to overwhelm them both

Contributors: Richard Biehl

The Life and Poetry of Frank Stanford Mary Thomas Crane and Olivia VillarrealFinalist, 2026 Pulitzer Prize (Biography) Kirkus Reviews Best of 2025, Nonfiction When twenty nine year old Frank Stanford put three bullets in his chest on June 3, 1978, he ended a life that had been inextricably linked with poetry since childhood. Deeply influential but largely unknown outside his corner of the poetry world, this prodigy of the American South inspired a cult following that has kept his reputation and work flickering on the periphery