"Stanford is the best poet of his generation. Period."

--John McKernan

"Receiving a letter from Frank was like an epiphany--something raw and real you could take to heart. Frank brought reality to dreams."

--Irv Broughton

"Frank's letters arrived in my mailbox like a bolt of lightning. As a young poetry editor in Columbia, Missouri in the early 1970s, his letters both excited and terrified me, as if at any moment he might show up on my doorstep."

--Eleanor Bender

"The experience of reading Stanford's poetry manuscripts was one of awe. How would it be possible for a person so young to have written something that revelatory about life? It was as if he had already lived a life entire."

--William L. Fox

"Following a 1971 romance that ended with me leaving town, two charged love letters from Frank arrived in New York in summer 1972 like a bombshell to my existence. Fervid letters over the months to follow continued to melt my frozen heart."

--Cheryl Campbell

"When I received the letters and postcards from Frank in 1972, I read them as one best friend to another. Frank was in a fragile state of mind, and I was deeply troubled."

--Bill Willett

"Frank's spark shone from his eyes, and his wide smile immediately drew me to his immensely likable personality. His voice had a mellifluously warm Southern cadence that oozed with literacy, and there is nothing like hearing poetry voiced with such a lilt."

--James Babij

"Before he left New Orleans on June 3rd, Frank scribbled a note telling me to keep my eye on the moon, my poetry. I have felt both honored and challenged by his words ever since."

--Ralph Adamo