In his introduction to "What about This: Collected Poems of Frank Stanford" (Copper Canyon Press, 2015), the poet Dean Young described Stanford's poetry as, "something authentically raw, even brutal, which seems both very old and utterly new, its vitality coming from roots that sink deep into the primitive well-springs of art and the mud of the human heart and mind." In a 2015 review for "The New York Times", Dwight Garner says "Since Mr. Stanford's death, his cult has grown, but it's never come close to metastasizing. In large part, that's because his work has been hard to find, issued by tiny presses and often out of print. The long-awaited publication this month of "What About This: The Collected Poems of Frank Stanford" gives us a chance to see him whole. It introduces to a broader audience an important and original American poet."