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William Stafford
William Stafford (1914 - 1993 / Kansas / United States)
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William Edgar Stafford was born in Hutchinson, Kansas, on January 17, 1914, to Ruby Mayher and Earl Ingersoll Stafford. The eldest of three children, .. more >>
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1      A Ritual To Read To Each Other
2      Across Kansas
3      Allegiances
4      Ask Me
5      Atavism
6      For My Young Friends Who Are Afraid
7      Graydigger's Home
8      Just Thinking
9      Lit Instructor
10      Notice What This Poem Is Not Doing
11      Objector
12      Remembering Mountain Men
13      Returned To Say
14      Security
15      The Light By The Barn
16      Thinking For Berky
17      This Life
18      Traveling Through The Dark
19      Waking at 3 a.m.
20      When I Met My Muse
        
 

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Norbert Hirschhorn (4/5/2005 2:33:00 AM)
William Stafford's Traveling Through the Dark: I am surprised how the poem is always misread. The doe 'had stiffened already, almost cold', i.e, several hours along since death, which makes it impossible for a fawn to be still alive. The whole premise of the poem is thus false, and the dilemma inauthentically presented. Stafford was a man who understood nature and creatures, and so I have to wonder what was he thinking in creating this bit of fiction.
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  ''At noon in the desert a panting lizard
waited for history, its elbows tense,
watching the curve of a particular road
as if something might happen.''
William Stafford (1914-1941), U.S. poet. At the Bomb Testing Site (l. 1-4). . . The Darkness Around Us Is Deep; Selected Poems. Robert Bly, ed. (1...
 
  ''a doe, a recent killing;
she had stiffened already, almost cold.
I dragged her off she was large in the belly.''
William Stafford (1914-1941), U.S. poet. Traveling through the Dark (l. 6-8). . . The Darkness Around Us Is Deep; Selected Poems. Robert Bly, ed. ...

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