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Writing the World : Understanding William Stafford
author
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Kitchen, Judith.
publisher
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Oregon State University Press
isbn10 | asin
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0870714562
print isbn13
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9780870714566
ebook isbn13
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9780585251127
language
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English
subject
Stafford, William,--1914---Criticism and interpretation.
publication date
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1999
lcc
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PS3537.T143Z74 1999eb
ddc
:
811/.54
subject
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Stafford, William,--1914---Criticism and interpretation.
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The paper in this book meets the guidelines for permanence and durability of the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book Longevity of the Council on Library Resources and the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials Z39.48-1984.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Writing the world / understanding William Stafford / Judith Kitchen p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-87071-456-2 (alk.) 1. Stafford, William, 19141993Criticism and interpretation. I Title. PS3537.T143Z74 1999 811'.54dc21 98-40553 CIP
1999 Judith Kitchen All rights reserved. First edition 1999 Printed in the United States of America
Oregon State University Press 101 Waldo Hall Corvallis OR 97331-6407 541-737-3166 fax 541-737-3170 www.osu.orst.edu/dept/press
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Contents
Introduction
1
1 Millions of Intricate Moves
Understanding William Stafford
3
2 The Whole Land's Wave
Down in My Heart and West of Your City
27
3 Some Right Song
Traveling through the Dark
39
4 Witness
The Rescued Year, Allegiances, and Someday, Maybe
49
5 What the River Says
Stories That Could Be True and Other Collections
63
6 Any Sight, Any Sound
A Glass Face in the Rain and An Oregon Message
73
7 World Please Note
Passwords, Other Collections, The Methow River Poems, and The Way It Is
87
8 Like a School of Fish
Stafford's Poetic Technique
101
9 Willingly Fallible
The Essays/The Art
113
Notes
127
Bibliography
135
Acknowledgments
143
Index
145
Page 1
Introduction
The writer and critic Fred Chappell once suggested that, for Stafford, the word world was a trope for loss,1 but in one of his later poems Stafford seemed to equate the world with something waiting to be found:
Writing the World
In the stillness around me that no one can cross I am writing for life. The world like a leaf turns as it falls. This air might catch, an edge touch that leaf, and a song begin till all turns red. I can feel that song by holding my hand on a picture of fire, saying, "Burn"
That kind of world. There is fire and you say soyour tongue takes flame. You burn into speech. You touch all you say. World that waits, you are too many things. I have only a part, and I choose you, persona, someone: come true, sing, flame out, be mewho I might have been.2
What readers found in William Stafford's work was an attitude toward the world that provided a way of living in the world. Writing was a way of life. It was a way of being aware of othersand of nature; of moving toward his inevitable death. William Stafford's poems expand outward. They "burn into speech." But they burn quietly, slowly, like a fire that has been banked, ready for the future.
When William Stafford died on August 29, 1993, the literary world lost one of its most generous members. He had spent a lifetime teaching and talking about poetry, showing us how the quiet voice of a poem can change the worldif you listen well.
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This book is a revised and expanded version of Understanding William Stafford (originally published by the University of South Carolina Press, 1989), which followed the course of Stafford's publications and noted not only his consistency, but also the development of new themes and concerns. Bill wrote his own "blurb" for that book, saying, "My poems tell me they like this book. True, they receive sympathy, but inside that embrace there is insight about their true heart and impulse. With this book they better their chances for finding congenial readers, always their aim, their ambition."3 As the author, I was somewhat puzzledhis poems liked the book, but did he? However I also understood the characteristic modesty, the unwillingness to judge, the emphasis on the poetry rather than the poet himself. In this version, I have added to my original assessment of how the poems work, seeking to come even closer to their "true heart and impulse."
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