Even in Quiet Places: Poems
by William Stafford
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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.Tags
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Calm, but with a surprising depth, the poems here are some which I think can be enjoyed by any reader of poetry. Stafford's care with scene and language is wonderful, and the tension he elicits in even the simplest of exploration is wonderful to experience. For the reader who wants a relaxing and enjoyable collection, this is ideal, and there's a lot here to be wandered through and re-read, over and over again, as the mood strikes.
In a world of grandstanding, Stafford's simplicity was a breath of fresh air to me. I have loved him since first reading him and this collection is one of his best.
This is one of Stafford's best volumes of poetry. I loaned it to someone for a day, and that person had it stolen from them in a doctor's office. I hope the person who stole it enjoys it as much as I do. I have since replaced my copy, because it is so good.
One of my favorite writers, but this volume gets old, if you read it all at once.
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William Edgar Stafford was born in Hutchinson, Kansas on January 17, 1914. He received a B.A. in 1937 and a master's degree in English in 1947 from the University of Kansas and a Ph.D. from the University of Iowa in 1954. During the Second World War, he was a conscientious objector and worked in the civilian public service camps. He wrote about show more this experience in the prose memoir Down in My Heart, which was published in 1947. He taught at Lewis and Clark College from 1948 until his retirement in 1980. During his lifetime, he published more than sixty-five volumes of poetry and prose including The Rescued Year, Stories That Could Be True: New and Collected Poems, Writing the Australian Crawl: Views on the Writer's Vocation, and An Oregon Message. He received several awards including a Shelley Memorial Award, a Western States Lifetime Achievement Award in Poetry, and the National Book Award in 1963 for Traveling Through the Dark. In 1970, he was the Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress (a position currently known as the Poet Laureate). He died on August 28, 1993. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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