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William Stafford William Stafford
(1914 - 1993 / USA)
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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, Stafford grew up with an appreciation for nature and books. During the Depression the family moved from town to town as Earl Stafford searched for .. .. 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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"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. (1993) HarperCollins.
"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. (1993) HarperCollins.
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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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William Stafford - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Darkness Around Us Is Deep: Selected Poems of William Stafford, edited and with an introduction by Robert Bly, HarperPerennial, 1993. ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Stafford 


William Stafford Writings
William Stafford was an extremely prolific writer, authoring 67 volumes in his 79 years. His first book of poetry, West of Your City, was published in 1960 ...
http://www.williamstafford.org/pages/writings.html 


Poets.org - Poetry, Poems, Bios & More - William Stafford
William Stafford was born in Hutchinson, Kansas, in 1914. He received a B.A. and an M.A. from the University of Kansas at Lawrence and, in 1954, ...
http://www.poets.org/wstaf/ 


William Stafford - newsfromnowhere.com
Thanks to Paul Merchant of the William Stafford Archives, Katie Dublinski of Graywolf Press, James Hepworth of Confluence Press, and Patty Wixon of TTTD ...
http://www.newsfromnowhere.com/stafford/stafford00.html 


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