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Early Morning

Remembering My Father, William Stafford
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Description

With incredible insight and love, Kim Stafford offers a view into the remarkable life of his father, the poet William Stafford

The unspoken deep affection he lived by was like the idea in his poem about the Eskimos—their disdain for "People who talk about God." In his world, a fact so pervasive as love never need be named.

William Stafford wrote a poem nearly every day of his life, most often before dawn, as he lay on a much-used couch that bore the imprint of his body after years of use. He was a prolific, highly acclaimed poet, famous pacifist, and extraordinary friend to nearly everyone he met. But Kim was given perhaps his father's greatest gift—and greatest challenge—to be his literary executor.

Carefully sifting through his father's papers—thousands of poems written on napkins, grocery receipts, letters—Kim follows a copious trail of words matched only by his father's silences. Kim is able to visit his father's life in a deeply personal way and, as a result, beautifully illuminates William Stafford as someone who was unafraid to stare into emptiness and to live a life so fully in the moment that he was able to touch countless lives with a single poem.

Product Details

PublisherGraywolf Press
Publish DateOctober 01, 2002
Pages304
LanguageEnglish
TypeBook iconHardback
EAN/UPC9781555973728
Dimensions286.0 X 130.1 X 28.3 mm | 1.4 pounds
BISAC Categories: Biography & Memoir, Poetry

About the Author

Kim Stafford is Associate Professor, Lewis and Clark Graduate School. He writes, teaches, and travels to raise the human spirit through poetry. He founded the Northwest Writing Institute in 1986, and has published a dozen books of poetry and prose, including The Muses Among Us: Eloquent Listening and Other Pleasures of the Writer's Craft and 100 Tricks Every Boy Can Do: How My Brother Disappeared. His most recent book is the poetry collection Singer Come from Afar (Red Hen Press). He has taught writing in dozens of schools and community centers, and in Scotland, Italy, and Bhutan. In 2018 he was named Oregon's 9th Poet Laureate.

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