William Edgar Stafford was an American poet and pacifist, and the father of poet and essayist Kim Stafford. He and his writings are sometimes identified with the Pacific Northwest. In 1970, he was named Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, a position that is now known as Poet Laureate. In 1975, he was named Poet Laureate of Oregon; his tenure in the position lasted until 1990. In 1980, he retired from Lewis & Clark College but continued to travel extensively and give public readings of his poetry. In 1992, he won the Western States Book Award for lifetime achievement in poetry. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William...
Books
The Way It Is
New and Selected Poems
1998
The Rescued Year
1966
Stories that Could Be True
New and Collected Poems
1977
Passwords
1991
TRAVELING THROUGH THE DARK.
1962
A Scripture of Leaves
1990
You Must Revise Your Life
1986
Every War Has Two Losers
William Stafford on Peace and War
2003
Allegiances
1970
The Animal that Drank Up Sound
1992
The Mozart Myths
A Critical Reassessment
1991
The Answers Are Inside the Mountains
Meditations on the Writing Life
2003
Xanadu
1993
Ask Me
100 Essential Poems of William Stafford
2014
Crossing Unmarked Snow
Further Views on the Writer's Vocation
1998
Even in Quiet Places
1996
A Glass Face in the Rain
1982
The Darkness Around Us is Deep
1993
My name is William Tell
Poems
1992
Contemporary American Poetry
1962
Another World Instead
The Early Poems of William Stafford, 1937-1947
2008
Learning to Live in the World
Earth Poems by William Stafford
1994
The Osage Orange Tree
A Story by William Stafford
2014
Writing the Australian Crawl
Views on the Writer's Vocation
1978
Down in My Heart
1985
