The Singing Knives
Frank Stanford (August 1, 1948 - June 3, 1978) was a  prolific American poet. He is most known for his epic, The  Battlefield  Where The Moon Says I Love You- a labyrinthine, highly  lexical book absent stanzas and punctuation. In addition,  Stanford  published six shorter books of poetry throughout his 20s,  and three posthumous collections of his writings (as well as  a book  of selected poems) have also been published.  Just shy of  his 30th birthday, Stanford died on June 3, 1978 in his home  in  Fayetteville, Arkansas, the victim of three self-inflicted pistol  wounds to the heart. In the three decades since, he has  become somewhat of a cult figure in American letters.