William Stafford

Stafford, Kim: Early Morning: Remembering My Father, William Stafford, Saint Paul, MN Graywolf Press 2002
ISBN: 1555973728 Very Good

ix, 296 pp., [16] pp. of plates, illus.; 24 cm. SIGNED. Boldly signed by author on title page, no dedication. Near fine, one corner lightly bumped. Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. "With incredible insight and love, Kim Stafford offers a view into the remarkable life of his father, the poet William Stafford. The unspoken deep affection he lived by was like the idea in his poem about the Eskimos- their disdain for 'People who talk about God.' In his world, a fact so pervasive as love never need be named. William Stafford wrote a poem nearly every day of his life, most often before dawn, as he lay on a much-used couch that bore the imprint of his body after years of use. He was a prolific, highly acclaimed poet, famous pacifist, and extraordinary friend to nearly everyone he met. But Kim was given perhaps his father's greatest gift - and greatest challenge - to be his literary executor. Carefully sifting through his father's papers - thousands of poems written on napkins, grocery receipts, letters - Kim follows a copious trail of words matched only by his father's silences. Kim is able to visit his father's life in a deeply personal way and, as a result, beautifully illuminates William Stafford as someone who was unafraid to stare into emptiness and to live a life so fully in the moment that he was able to touch countless lives with a single poem. / William Stafford was born in Kansas in 1914 and is the author of over fifty books. He received the National Book Award for Traveling Through the Dark. Kim Stafford is an Artist in Residence and Director of the Northwest Writing Institute at Lewis & Clark College in Oregon." - Publisher. Signed by Author First Edition, First Printing Fine Hard Cover 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Collectible

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STAFFORD, William; MILOSZ, Czeslaw; HEYEN, William; TATE, James; et al. ENCIRCLED BY AN ALPHABET. Derry, PA: Rook Press, (1976).
A portfolio of 12 broadsides (8-1/2" x 11") illustrated by William Lint, each one of 250 numbered and SIGNED by the poet. Poets included are Czeslaw Milosz, James Tate, William Stafford, Paul Zimmer, Jon Anderson, Sandra McPherson, Daniel Halpern, Gerald Costanzo, Mark Halperin, Ed Ochester, William Heyen, and Frederick Morgan..

First Edition, Broadsides, Fine.

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STAFFORD, William; MILOSZ, Czeslaw; TATE, James; et al. ENCIRCLED BY AN ALPHABET. Derry, PA: Rook Press, (1976).
A portfolio of 11 (of 12) broadsides (8-1/2" x 11") illustrated by William Lint, each one of 250 numbered and SIGNED by the poet. Poets included are Czeslaw Milosz, James Tate, William Stafford, Paul Zimmer, Jon Anderson, Sandra McPherson, Daniel Halpern, Gerald Costanzo, Mark Halperin, Ed Ochester, and Frederick Morgan..

First Edition, Broadsides, Lacks the William Heyen broadside. Fine.

[SW: Signed Modern Poetry Broadsides Modern Firsts Nobel Prize William Stafford Czeslaw Milosz James Tate Limited,]

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GINSBERG, Allen; UPDIKE, John; STAFFORD, William; PASTAN, Linda McHUGH, Heather; NEMEROV, Howard; HEYEN, William; DAVISON, Scott. [BROADSIDES] AMERICAN POETRY PORTFOLIO. Dallas: Northouse & Northouse, 1981.
A collection of eight folio broadsides and title page ranging in size from 13" x 17" to 13" x 19" and printed on heavy paper of various colors with all but two of the broadsides illustrated and each individually SIGNED by the author. This is Copy "F" of 26 lettered copies of a total editon of 126. Contributors are John Updike ("Two Sonnets"), Allen Ginsberg ("CapitolAir" -- Ginsberg has also made a single word holograph correction to the text), Linda Pastan ("Mother Eve"), Howard Nemerov ("Landscape with Self-Portrait"), Heather McHugh ("From 20,000 Feet"), William Stafford ("Geography Lesson"), William Heyen ("Mother and Son"), and Scott Davison ("Soft Salvation"). The five printers are The Red Ozier Press, The Meadow Press, The Press of A. Colish, The Press of W. Thomas Taylor, and the Wind River Press. Housed in a plexiglass box especially made for this publication and allowing the portfolio to be hung on a wall with one of thebroadsides displayed..

First Edition, broadsides, Fine in case as issued..

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