The Way It Is: New and Selected Poems

by Stafford, William
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ISBN: 9781555972844
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William Stafford (1914-1993) was an earnest, perceptive, and often affecting American poet who filled his life and ours with poetry of challenge and consolation. The Way It Is: New and Selected Poems gathers unpublished works from his last year, including the poem he wrote the day he died, as well as an essential and wide-ranging selection of works from throughout his career. An editorial team including his son Kim Stafford, the poet Naomi Shihab Nye, and the poet, translator, and author Robert Bly collaborated on shaping this book of Stafford's pioneering career in modern poetry. The poems in The Way It Is encompass Stafford's rugged domesticity, the political edge of his irony, and his brave starings-off into emptiness.

  • Format: TradePaperback
  • Author: Stafford, William
  • ISBN: 9781555972844
  • Condition: Used
  • Dimensions: 9.02 x 0.84
  • Number Of Pages: 268
  • Publication Year: 1999

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