Download or read book Early Morning written by Kim Robert Stafford and published by . This book was released on 2002-10 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before William Stafford's death in 1993, he gave his son Kim the greatest gift and challenge: to be his literary executor.".

Download or read book On William Stafford written by Tom Andrews and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 1995-03 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary writers and critics trace the achievement of William Stafford and his influence on contemporary poetry.

Download or read book You Must Revise Your Life written by William Stafford and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Included in the book are a selection of Stafford's poetry on the subject of writing, and an essay on the origins and influences of his art."--Page 4 of cover.

Download or read book Ask Me written by William Stafford and published by Graywolf Press. This book was released on 2014-01-07 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In our time there has been no poet who revived human hearts and spirits more convincingly than William Stafford." —Naomi Shihab Nye Some time when the river is ice ask me mistakes I have made. Ask me whether what I have done is my life. —from "Ask Me" In celebration of the poet's centennial, Ask Me collects one hundred of William Stafford's essential poems. As a conscientious objector during World War II, while assigned to Civilian Public Service camps Stafford began his daily writing practice, a lifelong early-morning ritual of witness. His poetry reveals the consequences of violence, the daily necessity of moral decisions, and the bounty of art. Selected and with a note by Kim Stafford, Ask Me presents the best from a profound and original American voice.

Download or read book The Way It Is written by William Stafford and published by . This book was released on 1998-02 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of poems by twentieth-century American poet William Stafford, featuring unpublished works from his last year of life, including the poem he wrote the day he died, and providing selections drawn from throughout his career, from the 1960s through the 1990s.

Download or read book Every War Has Two Losers written by William Stafford and published by Milkweed Editions. This book was released on 2003 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born the year World War I began, acclaimed poet William Stafford (1914-1993) spent World War II in a camp for conscientious objectors. Throughout a century of conflict he remained convinced that wars simply don't work. In his writings, Stafford showed it is possible--and crucial--to think independently when fanatics act, and to speak for reconciliation when nations take sides. He believed it was a failure of imagination to only see two options: to fight or to run away. This book gathers the evidence of a lifetime's commitment to nonviolence, including an account of Stafford's near-hanging at the hands of American patriots. In excerpts from his daily journal from 1951-1991, Stafford uses questions, alternative views of history, lyric invitations, and direct assessments of our political habits to suggest another way than war. Many of these statements are published here for the first time, together with a generous selection of Stafford's pacifist poems and interviews from elusive sources. Stafford provides an alternative approach to a nation's military habit, our current administration's aggressive instincts, and our legacy of armed ventures in Europe, the Pacific, Korea, Vietnam, the Persian Gulf, Afghanistan, and beyond.

Download or read book Stories that Could be True written by William Stafford and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 1977 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Another World Instead written by William Stafford and published by . This book was released on 2008-04 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of the poet's early works, mostly unpublished, includes poems written while he was assigned to the Civilian Public Service camps during World War II for his opposition to the war.

Download or read book Traveling Through the Dark written by William Stafford and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Someday Maybe written by William Stafford and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 1973 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Learning to Live in the World written by William Stafford and published by HMH Books For Young Readers. This book was released on 1994 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of fifty poems which reflect the ways in which we relate to the world around us.

Download or read book Even in Quiet Places written by William Stafford and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ninety poems gathered from four privately printed limited editions are now available to the general public. Stafford's poems demonstrate his profound understanding of freedom and social justice while showing us ways to establish harmony in our own lives.

Download or read book Crossing Unmarked Snow written by William Stafford and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays, interviews, and poetry by revered poet and teacher William Stafford

Download or read book Writing the Australian Crawl written by William Stafford and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stafford's advice to beginning poets has become a favorite text in writing programs

Download or read book Segues written by William Stafford and published by David R. Godine Publisher. This book was released on 1983 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two respected American poets have created a sequence of "verse letters" to each other, each one suggesting the material for the next. Stafford and Bell decided on the idea for this sequence at The Midnight Sun Writers' Conference in Fairbanks, Alaska, in 1979, and the poems were written over the next two years.

Download or read book Things that Happen where There Aren t Any People written by William Stafford and published by B O a Editions, Limited. This book was released on 1980 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Sound of the Ax written by Vincent Wixon and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2014-02-10 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sound of the Ax brings together for the first time over four hundred aphorisms and twenty-six aphoristic poems by one of America's most essential poets of the twentieth century. Many readers are familiar with the trenchant nature of William Stafford's poems, with lines such as "Justice will take us millions of intricate moves" and "Your job is to find what the world is trying to be," but have never had the opportunity to read a sustained selection from the thousands of wise, witty, and penetrating statements he created in over forty years of daily writing in his journal. In keeping with Stafford's varied interests, the aphorisms in Sound of the Ax explore many topics—war and peace, involvement, aging, appearances, fear, egotism, writing, nature, animals, suffering, faith, living an ethical life, and so on—with his incisive view. The poems are either made up entirely or primarily aphorisms, and range from the well-known "Things I Learned Last Week" to some never before collected. Readers will find much to enjoy and to think about here, and will return over and over to Sound of the Ax for inspiration, pleasure, and wisdom from an author noted for his integrity and mindful living.