The Battlefield Where the Moon Says I Love You

"Stanford understood that in the South-and in life itself-humor keeps company with with the deepest mysteries. The Battlefield Where the Moon Says I Love You brings this truth to life more powerfully and convincingly than any other American poem. Above all, it is a jubilee of language. As a child of the land that Stanford writes about, I guarantee you: this here is the real gab of the Delta. And thanks to the extraordinary work of James McWilliams and A. P. Walton, we have at last an authoritative, scholarly edition. McWilliams and Walton are rare scholars-as at home in Stanford's levee camps as in the archives. For the stellar work they have done, this book's growing readership will be forever grateful." -Greg Brownderville, creator of Fire Bones and author of A Horse with Holes in It