William Stafford (1914-1993) is widely recognized as one of the most important poets of this century. This first definitive Stafford collection contains old favorites along with several never-before-published works--including one the poet wrote the day he died. These poems show us the depth and scope of a poet for whom the art was to make a life ...
The library of America is dedicated to publishing America's best and most significant writing in handsome, enduring volumes, featuring authoritative texts. Hailed as the "finest-looking, longest-lasting editions ever made" (The New Republic), Library of America volumes make a fine gift for any occasion. Now, with exactly one hundred volumes to ...
The library of America is dedicated to publishing America's best and most significant writing in handsome, enduring volumes, featuring authoritative texts. Hailed as the "finest-looking, longest-lasting editions ever made" (The New Republic), Library of America volumes make a fine gift for any occasion. Now, with exactly one hundred volumes to ...
One of poet William Stafford's four children writes not only about his father's life (including his time in a C.O. camp during World War II) and work, but about his own, which includes his relationship to his celebrated father.
Stafford explores the psychological aspects of envy, lust, avarice, gluttony, anger, despair, and pride, and offers sacramental remedies rooted in Christian tradition. Provides readers with a contemporary language for talking about sin and temptation.
From 1942 to 1945, William Stafford was interned in camps for conscientious objectors in Arkansas and California for his refusal to be inducted into the U.S. Army. Down in My Heart is an account of the relationships among the men in the camps and their day-to-day activities - fighting forest fires, building trails and roads, restoring eroded lands ...
The unpublished early poems of William Stafford now added to "a body of work that represents some of the finest poetry written during the second half of [the twentieth] century." ("Library Journal") "If I could remember all at once--but I have forgotten. But some day, looking along a furrowed cliff, staring ""beyond the eyes' strength, I'll start ...
Colorful collage illustrations accompany this poem that explores the silence of winter as symbolized by a large bear-like creature that travels through a forest eating all the sounds of summer and fall. Will any creature be able to bring spring back again?
This ambitious work separates what is actually known (and can be known) about Mozart from the many myths and legends that have grown up about his life and character, notably the narratives about the circumstances of his death and his alleged immaturity, drinking, extravagance, womanizing, and unreliability.
Throughout most of the 20th century, from World War I until his death in 1993, America poet and pacifist William Stafford remained convinced that wars don't work. In his poetry and other writing, he showed that it is crucial to think independently when fanatics act and to speak for reconciliation when nations take sides. This inspiring volume ...
Most environmental studies are based upon data collected at fine spatial scales (plots, sediments, cores, etc.). Furthermore, temporal scales of these studies have been relatively short (days, weeks, months) and few studies have exceeded three years duration (the typical funding cycle). Despite this history, environmental scientists are now being ...
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