William Stafford’s ‘An Introduction to Some Poems’ is about the role of budding poets. The speaker says that every life is worth writing about, and a writer’s work is to share “authentic” human experiences. Just as in sleep you have to dream ...
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Stafford was known for his quiet daily ritual of writing and his focus on the ordinary. The gentle quotidian style of his poetry has been compared to Robert Frost. His poems are typically short, focusing on the earthy, accessible details appropriate to a specific locality. In a 1971 interview...
William Stafford was one of America's most gifted and best-lovedpoets. His writing - part...Lund, Elizabeth
When John Berryman was 12 years old, his father killed himself outside Berryman’s bedroom window. The trauma of this event haunted Berryman throughout his life and reoccurred as a subject in his poems. He first gained renown for his longmonologuepoemHomage to Mistress Bradstreet(1956). In ...
William Stafford Poems Ask Meby William Stafford Some time when the river is ice ask me mistakes I have made. Ask me whether what I have done is my life. Others have come in their slow way into my thought, and some have tried to help...
William Stafford Poems The light along the hills in the morning comes down slowly, naming the trees white, then coasting the ground for stones to nominate. Notice what this poem is not doing. A house, a house, a barn, the old quarry, where the river shrugs--...