William Stafford, Author Confluence Press $11 (118p) ISBN 978-1-881090-16-8
This first volume since Stafford's death three years ago at age 79 gathers works of four chapbooks published between 1990 and 1993. Stafford's second book of poems, Traveling through the Dark, won a National Book Award in 1962. Through 50 books in...
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William Stafford, Author Confluence Press $11 (78p) ISBN 978-0-917652-96-7
Acccording to Stafford ( Passwords: Poems ), our lives are full of ordinary miracles whose effects reverberate throughout time and space, changing existence forever. He writes: ``Religion has touched your throat. Not the same now, / you could close...
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William Stafford, Author Confluence Press $20 (120p) ISBN 978-1-881090-19-9
This first volume since Stafford's death three years ago at age 79 gathers works of four chapbooks published between 1990 and 1993. Stafford's second book of poems, Traveling through the Dark, won a National Book Award in 1962. Through 50 books in...
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William Stafford, Author Harper Perennial $21.95 (92p) ISBN 978-0-06-055293-0
This is a multifaceted collection, full of wry observations and pregnant musings, the products of a prodigious imagination that transforms all it perceives into verse that speaks eloquently of the concerns of our material and spiritual lives. The...
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William Stafford, Author, Kim Stafford, Introduction by Oregon State University Press $15.95 (120p) ISBN 978-0-87071-430-6
In a career that began at 46, Stafford (1914-1993) published 67 full-length collections and chapbooks of sharply observed verse, harvesting poems from his diligently carried out ""Daily Writings."" Rather than completely refining out the rougher...
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William Stafford, Author, Kim Stafford, Afterword by, Naomi Shihab Nye, Introduction by Graywolf Press $24.95 (296p) ISBN 978-1-55597-269-1
In a career that began at 46, Stafford (1914-1993) published 67 full-length collections and chapbooks of sharply observed verse, harvesting poems from his diligently carried out ""Daily Writings."" Rather than completely refining out the rougher...
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William Stafford, Author, Paul Merchant, Editor, Vincent Wixon, Editor University of Michigan Press $14.95 (168p) ISBN 978-0-472-06664-3
In a career that began at 46, Stafford (1914-1993) published 67 full-length collections and chapbooks of sharply observed verse, harvesting poems from his diligently carried out ""Daily Writings."" Rather than completely refining out the rougher...
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William Stafford, Author Harper Perennial $17.95 (143p) ISBN 978-0-06-055093-6
In a prefatory note to his eighth volume of poetry, Stafford hints at his unusual mode of composition: ""Each poem is a miracle that has been invited to happen . . . a gift, a surprise that emerges as itself.'' This method accounts for the...
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