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| william stafford the way it is book: The Way It Is William Stafford, 1998-02 A collection of poems by twentieth-century American poet William Stafford, featuring unpublished works from his last year of life, including the poem he wrote the day he died, and providing selections drawn from throughout his career, from the 1960s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. |
| william stafford the way it is book: The Way It Is William Stafford, 1999-03-01 William Stafford (1914-1993) was an earnest, perceptive, and often affecting American poet who filled his life and ours with poetry of challenge and consolation. The Way It Is: New and Selected Poems gathers unpublished works from his last year, including the poem he wrote the day he died, as well as an essential and wide-ranging selection of works from throughout his career. An editorial team including his son Kim Stafford, the poet Naomi Shihab Nye, and the poet, translator, and author Robert Bly collaborated on shaping this book of Stafford's pioneering career in modern poetry. The poems in The Way It Is encompass Stafford's rugged domesticity, the political edge of his irony, and his brave starings-off into emptiness. |
| william stafford the way it is book: Stories that Could be True William Stafford, 1977 |
| william stafford the way it is book: Early Morning Kim Stafford, 2014-01-10 A prolific writer, famous pacifist, respected teacher, and literary mentor to many, William Stafford is one of the great American poets of the 20th century. His first major collection--Traveling through the Dark--won the National Book Award. William Stafford published more than sixty-five volumes of poetry and prose and was Poetry Consultant to the Library of Congress--a position now know as the Poet Laureate. Before William Stafford's death in 1993, he gave his son Kim the greatest gift and challenge: to be his literary executor. In Early Morning, Kim creates an intimate portrait of a father and son who shared many passions: archery, photography, carpentry, and finally, writing itself. But Kim also confronts the great paradox at the center of William Stafford's life. The public man, the poet who was always communicating with warmth and feeling--even with strangers--was capable of profound, and often painful silence within the family. By piecing together a collage of his personal and family memories, and sifting through thousands of pages, of his father's daily writing and poems, Kim illuminates a fascinating and richly lived life. |
| william stafford the way it is book: Even in Quiet Places William Stafford, 1996 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. |
| william stafford the way it is book: Every War Has Two Losers William Stafford, 2003 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. |
| william stafford the way it is book: Traveling Through the Dark William Stafford, 1962 |
| william stafford the way it is book: You Must Revise Your Life William Stafford, 1986 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. |
| william stafford the way it is book: Another World Instead William Stafford, 2008-04 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. |
| william stafford the way it is book: Segues William Stafford, Marvin Bell, 1983 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. |
| william stafford the way it is book: Learning to Live in the World William Stafford, 1994 A collection of fifty poems which reflect the ways in which we relate to the world around us. |
| william stafford the way it is book: 100 Tricks Every Boy Can Do Kim Stafford, 2012-09-27 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. |
| william stafford the way it is book: Crossing Unmarked Snow William Stafford, 1998 Essays, interviews, and poetry by revered poet and teacher William Stafford |
| william stafford the way it is book: The Osage Orange Tree William Stafford, 2014-01-20 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. |
| william stafford the way it is book: I Am Not Sidney Poitier Percival Everett, 2011-08-02 I Am Not Sidney Poitier is an irresistible comic novel from the master storyteller Percival Everett, and an irreverent take on race, class, and identity in America I was, in life, to be a gambler, a risk-taker, a swashbuckler, a knight. I accepted, then and there, my place in the world. I was a fighter of windmills. I was a chaser of whales. I was Not Sidney Poitier. Not Sidney Poitier is an amiable young man in an absurd country. The sudden death of his mother orphans him at age eleven, leaving him with an unfortunate name, an uncanny resemblance to the famous actor, and, perhaps more fortunate, a staggering number of shares in the Turner Broadcasting Corporation. Percival Everett's hilarious new novel follows Not Sidney's tumultuous life, as the social hierarchy scrambles to balance his skin color with his fabulous wealth. Maturing under the less-than watchful eye of his adopted foster father, Ted Turner, Not gets arrested in rural Georgia for driving while black, sparks a dinnertable explosion at the home of his manipulative girlfriend, and sleuths a murder case in Smut Eye, Alabama, all while navigating the recurrent communication problem: What's your name? a kid would ask. Not Sidney, I would say. Okay, then what is it? |
| william stafford the way it is book: We Belong in History Ooligan Press, 2013-12 We Belong in History celebrates William Stafford’s life as a writer, teacher, and Poet Laureate of Oregon. This collection presents excellent student writing inspired by his work, a selection of Stafford’s work, and three sets of lesson plans written by teachers. This allows teachers everywhere to inspire their own students to write in response to Stafford’s work. With an introduction by current poet laureate of Oregon, Paulann Petersen, teachers, student writers, Stafford-admirers, and poetry readers will enjoy We Belong in History’s celebration of the joy of writing. |
| william stafford the way it is book: The Music of Time John Burnside, 2021-04-06 First published in a slight different form in Great Britain in 2019 by Profile Books Ltd.--Title page verso. |
| william stafford the way it is book: De/Compositions W. D. Snodgrass, 2001-06 Illustrating how the poems we love could have been written differently, or even badly, the author rewrites poems by authors ranging from Elizabeth Bishop to Shakespeare, and displays the reworked version side-by-side with the original, so one can gain a better understanding of the original work's merits. |
| william stafford the way it is book: Down in My Heart Kim Stafford, 2006 From 1942 to 1945, William Stafford was interned in camps for conscientious objectors for his refusal to be inducted into the U.S. Army. Stafford's memoir of these years offers a rich glimpse into a little-known aspect of World War II and a fascinating look at the formative years of a major American poet. |
| william stafford the way it is book: Singer Come from Afar Kim Stafford, 2021-04-06 Singer Come from Afar, by Kim Stafford, offers poems that challenge, sustain, and forgive. |
| william stafford the way it is book: Most Way Home Kevin Young, 1996-01-01 |
| william stafford the way it is book: The Ways We Touch Miller Williams, 1997 The poems in The Ways We Touch, Miller Williams's twelfth volume of poetry, range from reminiscences of old love to meditations on the relationship between God and human beings to reflections on English poetry and children's stories. Throughout, Williams's poems use small scenes from daily life, drawing from them ruminations about life itself. They may be nostalgic or challenging, humorous or full of moral fortitude; always Williams speaks with the kind of insight that rises from wisdom and experience. |
| william stafford the way it is book: My Name is William Tell William Stafford, 1992 A collection of poetry considers Nature's instructive capacity and ways in which we can tap it for sustenance in our lives. |
| william stafford the way it is book: Space Pickle William Stafford, 2020-11-28 Space cruise liner The Merry Widow is forced to take a deep-space detour for fuel. Captain Caradoc Sprat has to deal with fractious passengers and an alluring newcomer... and then the murders begin. Can Sprat and his crew find the killer before the body count grows? And what's that? Space pirates on the starboard bow! With cyborgs, androids, and lashings of humour, this affectionate parody of popular science fiction has action, adventure and laser-sharp wit to get you beaming from ear to ear. |
| william stafford the way it is book: Getting the Knack Stephen Dunning, William Stafford, 1992 Introduces different kinds of poems, including headline, letter, recipe, list, and monologue, and provides exercises in writing poems based on both memory and imagination. |
| william stafford the way it is book: PrairyErth William Least Heat Moon, 1999 Details the author's journey through the 744 square miles and meeting the 3,000 inhabitants of Chase County, Kansas. |
| william stafford the way it is book: Allegiances William Stafford, 1970 |
| william stafford the way it is book: Sound of the Ax Vincent Wixon, Paul Merchant, 2014-02-10 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. |
| william stafford the way it is book: A Glass Face in the Rain William Stafford, 1982 |
| william stafford the way it is book: Genesis Daniel Berrigan, 2006 From the Foreword: Daniel Berrigan is not an academic Scripture scholar searching for an (always elusive) 'original meaning' of the text. His concern is for the significance of the text to us--in the here and now...[He] has long been known to be a prophet, someone who courageously speaks God's will for our warring world...For Daniel Berrigan, Genesis speaks to our time and our world... For seven years, Daniel Berrigan pondered the themes, meanings, contradictions, and implications of the Bible's most well-known and well-cherished Book of Beginnings. In light of the escalating violence, military occupations, and global acts of terrorism that have characterized the beginning of our twenty-first century, Genesis: Fair Beginnings, then Foul yields both sorrowful and hopeful reflections as Berrigan walks his readers through the Scripture, searching for stories of ancestry and origins that can shed a measure of light on dark days. Bringing together lively midrash, biblical exegesis, and stirring social and political critique, Daniel Berrigan marries the keen eye of a biblical scholar with the heart and words of a poet revealing for today's generations the book of Genesis, in all of its aspects, fair and foul. |
| william stafford the way it is book: Having Everything Right Kim Stafford, 2016-10-01 A collection of essays first published in 1986, Having Everything Right revolves around the history, folklore, and physical beauty of the Pacific Northwest. In terms of genre the book comes closest to books like Wallace Stegner's Wolf Willow or the essay collections of Edward Abbey and Wendell Berry, books that blend personal vision and regional evocation. Stafford's essays in this tradition range from the direct exploration of A Walk in Early May to the abstract meditation of Out of This World with Chaucer and the Astronauts, to the familial and social reflections of The Great Depression as Heroic Age. Animating them all is the sense that there is joy in knowing the world–and the belief that true knowing brings, as Stafford says, a change of heart. Stafford writes poetic and evocative prose as he reflects on such subjects as Indian place names, bears, and local eccentrics. |
| william stafford the way it is book: The Answers are Inside the Mountains William Stafford, 2003 Contains a collection of interviews, poems, and commentaries on the writings of author William Stafford. |
| william stafford the way it is book: Autumn in the Fields of Language Jeanne Lohmann, 2016 Jeanne Lohmann's new poetry collection celebrates the season of harvest, and the approach of year's end; but the poems are also about the literary harvest of a poet who has garnered respect and admiration for her remarkable use of words. These poems are wise and reflective, and many of them are narrative and story-like, entertaining, full of sharp, clear memories of people, places, and important moments of joy from a rich, long life. Several of these poems say goodbye to some of life's pleasures and skills, and to some fading memories, but there's a sense of letting go with grace and gratitude, and of treasuring what remains. Here's an appreciation of calm, stillness, silence, emptiness. And in the end the harvest of autumn returns over and over to the life-long love of words. Words have given Jeanne Lohmann much to work with, and she has made the most of them. |
| william stafford the way it is book: Naming the Unnameable Michelle Bonzcek Evory, 2018-03-05 Naming the Unnameable: An Approach to Poetry for the New Generation assembles a wide range of poetry from contemporary poets, along with history, advice, and guidance on the craft of poetry. Informed by a consideration to the psychology of invention, Michelle Bonczek Evory¿s writing philosophy emphasizes both spontaneity and discipline, teaching students how to capture the chaos in our memories, imagination, and bodies with language, and discovering ways to mold them into their own cosmos, sculpt them like clay on a page. Exercises aim to make writing a form of play in its early stages that gives way to more enriching insights through revision, embracing the writing of poetry as both a love of language and a tool that enables us to explore ourselves and understand the world. Naming the Unnameable promotes an understanding of poetry as a living art and provides ways for students to involve themselves in the growing contemporary poetry community that thrives in America today. |
| william stafford the way it is book: Discovering Poetry Hans Paul Guth, Gabriele L. Rico, 1993 The book elicits the students' intellectual engagement, emotional involvement, and imaginative participation with 393 poems from a blend of classic favorites, contemporary pieces, and works from outside the mainstream. Balances classic and modern works by men and women, white authors and minority authors, mainstream and formerly unheard-of voices; presents two or more contrasting interpretations of a work; pairs works from different periods or traditions that share a common theme to spark discussions; provides critical excerpts throughout the book; gives helpful guidelines for writing about important elements of literature; and more. An introductory guide for students of Poetry or Literature. |
| william stafford the way it is book: A Thousand Friends of Rain Kim Robert Stafford, Kim Stafford, 2005 A collection of new and selected poems by Kim Stafford. |
| william stafford the way it is book: The Methow River Poems William Stafford, 1995 A collection of seven poems originally intended for use in an interpretive sign project at the Winthrop Ranger District, along the Methow River in Washington State. |
| william stafford the way it is book: The Bell and the Blackbird David Whyte, 2018 Poetry, including a chapter of blessings and prayers, a section of small, haiku-inspired poems, and an homage to Pulitzer Prize-winner poet Mary Oliver. The sound / of a bell / still reverberating. Or a blackbird / calling / from a corner / of a / field. Asking you / to wake / into this life / or inviting you / deeper / to one that waits. Either way / takes courage, / either way wants you / to be nothing / but that self that / is no self at all. |
| william stafford the way it is book: From Here We Speak Ingrid Wendt, Primus St. John, 1993 An anthology of Oregon poetry from Native American tribal lyrics to the present. |
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