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The Light the Dead See: Selected Poems of Frank Stanford Classics_Gift_Guide Jesse Ball emerged as oneBetween 1972, when he published his first book, The Signing Knives, and 1978, when he died at the age of twenty nine, Frank Stanford published seven volumes of poetry. Within a year of his death, two posthumous collections were published. At the time of this death, as Leon Stokesbury asserts in his introduction, Stanford was the best poet in America under the age of thirty five. The Light the Dead See collects the best work from those nine volumes and