His work has been described as surrealistic tall tales - long poems set with recurring characters in an imaginary landscape drawn from his childhood in the Ozark mountains and full of wild embellishment.

Stanford is one of the least known of the significant voices of American poetry in the 1960s and 70s, yet in his day he was well known in poetry circles. Indeed, his work appeared in many prominent magazines, including The New Yorker, The Chicago Review, kayak, Iowa Review, Ironwood, Field, The Massachusetts Review, The Mill Mountain Review, The Nation, The New American Review, The New York Quarterly, Esquire, American Poetry Review, and Poetry Now.

On the evening of June 3, 1978, Stanford took his own life in his home in Fayetteville. He was buried in the cemetery at Subiaco beneath a stand of yellow pines, a mile or so from the Arkansas River. Ginny Crouch Stanford, his wife at the time, has stated that on that day, Stanford confessed that he had committed adultery. C.D. Wright, his mistress, and Ginny, confronted him about his adultery. Both Ginny and C.D. were in the house at the time of his death. They fought and Stanford retreated to his bedroom. A few moments later, three gunshots were: Stanford had shot himself three times in the heart.

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