num_pages: 542
description: The Battlefield Where the Moon Says I Love You is a 15,283-line epic poem by the poet Frank Stanford. First published in 1977 as a 542-page book, the poem is visually characterized by its absence of stanzas (or any skipped horizontal spaces) and punctuation.The poet’s magnum opus, published one year before his suicide in 1978. Stanford’s landmark primitive style of poetry, which involved strange tall tales and recurring characters, rivers, and a constant focus on death, has attained an almost mythical status among students of avant-garde and expressionistic poetry over the past three decades.
language: English
title: The Battlefield Where the Moon Says I Love You
titlecomplete: The Battlefield Where the Moon Says I Love You
genres: American, The United States Of America, Poetry, Literature, Epic, 20th Century, Southern, Unfinished, United States, Poetry Plays
ratings_count: 487
publisher: Lost Roads