Hidden Water

Media: A trailer for the book itself plus multiple videos for select poems will be produced. Different celebrities from the TMR family will be contacted to participate.We will be approaching several celebrities such as actor John C. Reilly plus musicians Tom Waits and DC Berman (Silver Jews) to record Stanford poems for videos and/or mp3s. We will also approach them for blurbs about the book. Events: There will be a launch party at AWP 2015 with Copper Canyon for the book. There will be a launch party at Third Man Records in Nashville, Tn for the book. Reviews and Publicity: Copper Canyon and TMB will be doing joint publicity, including reference to What About This in Hidden Water and vice versa. Finished books will be sent to New York Times, New Yorker, Rain Taxi, The Volta, Rolling Stone, Washington Post, NPR, and more Social Media: *TMB and TMR use all social media platforms regularly to post reviews, excerpts and profiles related to TMB authors. For instance, we posted a poem a day from Language Lessons for the month prior and after the release. We also have sent exclusive audio downloads of select authors to our Vault subscription service. This download is always accompanied by blurbs, photos, links to relevant sites, and author bio. *Third Man Books Twitter 1,358 Followers *Third Man Records Twitter 118k Followers *Third Man Records FB 135,830 Likes *Third Man Records.com receives an average 3500 visits per day *Third Man Records Instagram has 64k Followers *Third Man Books.com is housed within ThirdManRecords.com

From the Frank Stanford archives: unpublished poems, drafts, letters, and audio."The big event in poetry for 2015 will likely be the long-awaited resurrection of Frank Stanford, a legendary badass from Arkansas, much of whose poetry has been unavailable since his suicide at the age of 29 in 1978...Stanford was a hell of a metaphor-maker and simile-slinger, and could cast a spell of extreme intensity with a flick of his wrist."--NPR.org "His love poems can sound like the cry of an angel falling backward through an open window, to borrow Dwight Yoakam's line about Roy Orbison's voice...Mr. Stanford could lose his heart without blowing his cool." --New York Times "It is astounding to me that I was not even aware of this accomplished and moving poet. There is a great deal of pain on the poems, but it is a pain that makes sense, a tragic pain whose meaning rises from the way the poems are so firmly molded and formed from within."--James Wright Hidden Water: From the Frank Stanford Archives is 200 pages of unpublished poems, photographs, artwork, and facsimiles of typesheets, handwrtten drafts, and letters. A preface is written by editor Michael Wiegers and an appreciation by Stanford's friend Steve Stern. The book also includes downloadable audio of special guests reading Stanford's poetry. Hidden Water complements Copper Canyon Press's definitive Frank Stanford collection What About This and is a must for any lover of Stanford. My wallet was thick as the bible I carried around Graphs of Elvis Presley John Lee Hooker Brigitte Bardot and the sodbuster Burns I thought up nom-de-plumes in the outhouse and sent off for things cryptic ads I used stamps that made the postmaster ask where I was from Born in 1948, Frank Stanford was a prolific poet known for his originality and ingenuity. He has been dubbed "a swamprat Rimbaud" by Lorenzo Thomas and "one of the great voices of death" by Franz Wright. He grew up in Mississippi, Tennessee, and then Arkansas, where he lived for most of his life and wrote many of his most powerful poems. Stanford died in 1978. He authored over ten books of poetry, including eight volumes in the last seven years of his life.