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 Writing the World written by Judith Kitchen and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An excellent introduction for readers coming to Stafford for the first time and a valuable overview of the work for the many readers already familiar with his poetry, this book offers the best single guide to one of the most respected and celebrated poets of our time.
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 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 Book excerpt: A collection of poems by twentieth-century American poet William Stafford, featuring unpublished works from his last year of life, including the poem he wrote the day he died, and providing selections drawn from throughout his career, from the 1960s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 Understanding William Stafford written by Judith Kitchen and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kitchen (English, SUNY-Brockport) views Stafford's works chronologically, identifying themes and techniques, considering his prose writings and career as a teacher, and offering a comprehensive reassessment of Stafford as a major and distinctive poet of the second half of the century. 5x7 Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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 Understanding William Stafford written by Judith Kitchen and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kitchen (English, SUNY-Brockport) views Stafford's works chronologically, identifying themes and techniques, considering his prose writings and career as a teacher, and offering a comprehensive reassessment of Stafford as a major and distinctive poet of the second half of the century. 5x7 Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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 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 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 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 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 100 Tricks Every Boy Can Do written by Kim Stafford and published by Trinity University Press. This book was released on 2012-09-27 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bret and Kim Stafford, the oldest children of the poet and pacifist William Stafford, were pals. Bret was the good son, the obedient public servant, Kim the itinerant wanderer. In this family of two parent teachers, with its intermittent celebration of “talking recklessly,” there was a code of silence about hard things: “Why tell what hurts?” As childhood pleasures ebbed, this reticence took its toll on Bret, unable to reveal his troubles. Against a backdrop of the 1960s — puritan in the summer of love, pacifist in the Vietnam era — Bret became a casualty of his interior war and took his life in 1988. 100 Tricks Every Boy Can Do casts spells in search of the lost brother: climbing the water tower to stand naked under the moon, cowboys and Indians with real bullets, breaking into church to play a serenade for God, struggling for love, and making bail. In this book, through a brother’s devotions, the lost saint teaches us about depression, the tender ancestry of violence, the quest for harmonious relations, and finally the trick of joy.
Download or read book The Osage Orange Tree written by William Stafford and published by Trinity University Press. This book was released on 2014-01-20 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Osage Orange Tree, a never-before-published story by beloved poet William Stafford, is about young love complicated by misunderstanding and the insecurity of adolescence, set against the backdrop of poverty brought on by the Great Depression. The narrator recalls a girl he once knew. He and Evangeline, both shy, never find the courage to speak to each other in high school. Every evening, however, Evangeline meets him at the Osage orange tree on the edge of her property. He delivers a newspaper to her, and they talk—and as the year progresses a secret friendship blossoms. This magical coming-of-age tale is brought to life through linocut illustrations by Oregon artist Dennis Cunningham, with an afterword by poet Naomi Shihab Nye, a personal friend of Stafford’s. In the tradition of the work of great fiction writers like Steinbeck, O’Connor, and Welty, The Osage Orange Tree stands the test of time, not just as an ode to a place and a generation but as a testament to the resilience of a nation and the strength of the human heart.
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 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 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.
