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ISBN
  
0-918786-13-4

Originally published
  
1977

OCLC
  
3121031

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Publication date
  
1977

Dewey Decimal
  
811/.5/4

Author
  
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Publisher
  
Mill Mountain Press & Lost Roads

Pages
  
542 pp (1st), 383 pp (2nd)

Genres
  
Epic poetry, Southern Gothic

Similar
  
Frank Stanford books, American poetry books

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.

Stanford worked on the manuscript for many years (beginning as a teenager in the 1960s [or possibly even before his teenage years]) prior to its publication — a joint-publication by Mill Mountain Press (Stanford's publisher throughout the early and mid-1970s) and Lost Roads (Stanford's own press) — in 1977. After being out of print for several years, the book was republished by Lost Roads (under succeeding editorship of C.D. Wright and Forrest Gander) in 2000; this second, corrected edition — 383 pages, equipped with line numbers — is in print, having been reprinted by the press in 2008. A common misconception is that the 15,283-line poem (as evident in the 2000 edition) was actually over 21,000 lines in the first edition (which suggests that the two texts are actually different), but the seemingly longer line count in the 1977 edition is merely resultant of the paper's octavo size, effecting many lengthy lines to be necessarily broken with indents employed.

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The Battlefield Where The Moon Says I Love You Wikipedia


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