“I was in love with him. I don’t know what you would call our relationship,” Lucinda Williams writes, of the poet Frank Stanford. Read the full essay:
In my teen years, in the late nineteen-sixties, my father was adamant about cigarettes and sex. “I know a lot of teen-agers are having sex already, but if you hold off on having sex until you are eighteen, then we’ll get you the pill,” he said. “And don’t smoke cigarettes. They are bad for you.” We had a little deal, and I stuck to it. I didn’t have sex until I was eighteen. After I started the pill, though, I didn’t waste much time. Those were the days of free love.
I met Frank sometime in the spring of 1978. I was twenty-five years old. I had been living in Houston and Austin, plying my trade in the music scenes, working odd jobs in restaurants and health-food stores to pay my bills, but I often went to Fayetteville to visit my father and stepmother, and sometimes I would stay there for weeks or months at a time. Dad was a poet who taught at the University of Arkansas, and he’d often host raucous literary parties.
and a country boy. He was stocky, very fit, built like a wrestler or a rodeo man. He was charismatic, enigmatic, swashbuckling, sensitive. But there was also a part of him that was troubled, unstable. He was married to another woman before Ginny, and I was told that he spent some time in a mental hospital after that divorce.
Frank had sent flowers to my father’s house, and they arrived on the day he killed himself. I don’t know if he sent them on the same day or the day before or what. I got the flowers but I never saw him alive again. He had sent the flowers to let me know that he’d been thinking about me while he was gone.
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