Research Catalog

Title

On William Stafford : the worth of local things / edited by Tom Andrews.

Publication

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 1993.

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Details

Additional Authors

Andrews, Tom, 1961-2001.

Description

xiii,, 281 pages; 22 cm.

Summary

• The late William Stafford was one of America's most widely admired poets, yet Stafford's work has always remained controversial. On William Stafford: The Worth of Local Things brings together responses from both critics and fellow poets, including Margaret Atwood, Robert Coles, Robert Creeley, James Dickey, Richard Hugo, Linda Pastan, Charles Simic, and Louis Simpson.
• The reviews of Stafford's achievements offer a unique view into some of the livelier debates in poetics of recent decades and help to clarify the precise nature of his tremendous influence on American poetry.

Series Statement

Under discussion

Uniform Title

Under discussion.

Subject

Stafford, William, 1914-1993 > Criticism and interpretation

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

• Pt. 1. Book Reviews. William Stafford / James Dickey. From "Important and Unimportant Poems" / Louis Simpson. From "Design and Matter" / Robert Huff. From "The New Poetry" / Peter Davison. From "'Think What's Got Away . . .'" / Robert Creeley. Country Boy / Stanley Moss. From "Five Poets" / Adrianne Marcus. From "The Expansional Poet: The Return to Personality" / Laurence Lieberman. "Quiet as All Books" / Victor Howes. A Book to Build On / Gerald Burns. From "The Raw and the Cooked" / Paul Zweig. Someday, Maybe / Dabney Stuart. From "The Shocks of Normality" / Laurence Lieberman. Someday, Maybe / Richard Howard. Like Talk / Ralph J. Mills, Jr. From "Expressing the Difference" / William H. Pritchard. From "In Quiet Language" / Lawrence Kramer. From "Poets on Poetry" / G. E. Murray. From "Lives on Leaves" / Stephen Corey. From "A Remarkable Diversity" / Peter Stitt. Just Being / Michael McFee. From "News from the Glacier and A Glass Face in the Rain" / Alberta Turner.
• From "Feeding the Hunger for Stories" / R. W. Flint. Segues: A Correspondence in Poetry / Joseph Parisi. From "The Poetry of Realism" / Peter Stitt. Roving across Fields and Smoke's Way / Bert Almon. You Must Revise Your Life / A. Piccione. From "Owls, Monkeys and Spiders in Space" / Michael Heller. From "Short Reviews" / Vernon Shetley. From "Together and Apart" / Ben Howard -- Pt. 2. General Essays. Without Heroes, without Villains: Identity and Community in Down in My Heart / Jeff Gundy. William Stafford: " 'Tell Us What You Deserve,' the Whole World Said" / Richard Howard. Problems with Landscapes in Early Stafford Poems / Richard Hugo. William Stafford's Allegiances / William Heyen. William Stafford and the Surprise Cliche / Alberta Turner. William Stafford's Long Walk / Robert Coles. Two Views of the Lone Man / Fred Chappell. William Stafford: Eight Notions / Donald Hall. From "The First Person" / Bob Perelman. The Absence of the Artist / Dick Barnes.
• William Stafford's Wilderness Quest / Peter Stitt. Willingly Fallible: The Essays / The Art / Judith Kitchen -- Pt. 3. Essays on Particular Poems or Articles. From "One Vote" / Leonard Nathan. "At the Bomb Testing Site" / Charles Simic. "Thinking for Berky": Millions of Intricate Moves / Henry Taylor. "With Kit, Age 7, at the Beach" / Jonathan Holden. William Stafford's "Mornings" / Frank Steele. A Comment on William Stafford's "A Way of Writing" in Field 2 / John Haines. "Waking at 3 A.M." / Margaret Atwood. "Ask Me" / Linda Pastan. "Knowing": Glimpses into Something Ever Larger / Tom Andrews. "Things I Learned Last Week" / Alberta Turner. "1940": Shivers of Summer Wind / David Young -- Pt. 4. Conclusion. Jurors' Citation, 1992 Western States Book Awards: Lifetime Achievement in Poetry / William Kittredge, Marvin Bell, Denise Chavez and Naomi Shihab Nye.

ISBN

0472104241 (alk. paper)

LCCN

93034665

OCLC

• 28888924
• ocm28888924

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries