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William Edgar Stafford (17 januari, 1914 – 28 augusti, 1993) var en amerikansk poet, diktare och pacifist, far till poeten och författaren Kim Stafford. William Staffords senare verk är starkt präglade av miljöerna i Oregon där han hade sin hemvist under 45 år.

Tidigt liv

Stafford föddes i Hutchinson, Kansas, äldst av tre barn i en kväkarfamilj. Under den stora depressionen var han och hans familj tvungna att leva ett kringflackande liv i jakt för arbete åt fadern. Stafford hjälpte till att dra in pengar till familjen genom att dela ut tidningar, rensa sockerbetsfält, odla grönsaker och jobba som elektrikerhjälp.

Bibliografi

Poesi

• West of Your City, Talisman Press, 1960.
• Traveling through the Dark, Harper, 1962.
• The Rescued Year, Harper, 1965.
• Eleven Untitled Poems, Perishable Press, 1968.
• Weather: Poems, Perishable Press, 1969.
• Allegiances, Harper, 1970.
• Temporary Facts, Duane Schneider Press, 1970.
• Poems for Tennessee,(With Robert Bly and William Matthews) Tennessee Poetry Press, 1971.
• In the Clock of Reason, Soft Press, 1973.
• Someday, Maybe, Harper, 1973.
• That Other Alone, Perishable Press, 1973.
• Going Places: Poems, West Coast Poetry Review, 1974.
• The Earth, Graywolf Press, 1974.
• North by West, (With John Meade Haines) edited by Karen Sollid and John Sollid, Spring Rain Press, 1975.
• Braided Apart (With son, Kim Robert Stafford) , Confluence, 1976.
• I Would Also Like to Mention Aluminum: Poems and a Conversation, Slow Loris Press, 1976.
• Late, Passing Prairie Farm: A Poem, Main Street Inc., 1976.
• The Design on the Oriole, Night Heron Press, 1977.
• Stories That Could Be True: New and Collected Poems, Harper, 1977.
• The Design on the Oriole, Night Heron Press, 1977.
• Smoke's Way (chapbook), Graywolf Press, 1978.
• All about Light, Croissant, 1978.
• A Meeting with Disma Tumminello and William Stafford, edited by Nat Scammacca, Cross-Cultural Communications, 1978.
• Passing a Creche, Sea Pen Press, 1978.
• Tuft by Puff, Perishable Press, 1978.
• Two about Music, Sceptre Press, 1978.
• Tuned in Late One Night, The Deerfield Press, 1978, The Gallery Press, 1978.
• The Quiet of the Land, Nadja Press, 1979.
• Around You, Your Horse & A Catechism, Sceptre Press, 1979.
• Absolution, Martin Booth, 1980.
• Things That Happen When There Aren't Any People, BOA Editions, 1980.
• Passwords, Sea Pen Press, 1980.
• Wyoming Circuit, Tideline Press, 1980.
• Sometimes Like a Legend: Puget Sound Country, Copper Canyon Press, 1981.
• A Glass Face in the Rain: New Poems, Harper, 1982.
• Roving across Fields: A Conversation and Uncollected Poems 1942-1982, edited by Thom Tammaro, Barnwood, 1983.
• Smoke's Way: Poems, Graywolf, 1983.
• Segues: A Correspondence in Poetry,(With Marvin Bell) David Godine, 1983.
• Listening Deep: Poems (chapbook), Penmaen Press, 1984.
• Stories and Storms and Strangers, Honeybrook Press, 1984.
• Wyoming, Ampersand Press, Roger Williams College, 1985.
• Brother Wind, Honeybrook Press, 1986.
• An Oregon Message, Harper 1987.
• You and Some Other Characters, Honeybrook Press, 1987.
• Annie-Over,(With Marvin Bell) Honeybrook Press, 1988.
• Writing the World, Alembic Press, 1988.
• A Scripture of Leaves, Brethren Press, 1989.
• Fin, Feather, Fur, Honeybrook Press, 1989.
• Kansas Poems of William Stafford, edited by Denise Low, Woodley Press, 1990.
• How to Hold Your Arms When It Rains, Confluence Press, 1991.
• Passwords, HarperPerennial, 1991.
• The Long Sigh the Wind Makes, Adrienne Lee Press, 1991.
• History is Loose Again, Honeybrook Press, 1991.
• The Animal That Drank Up Sound (a children's book, illustrated by Debra Frasier), Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1992.
• Seeking the Way (with illuminations by Robert Johnson), Melia Press, 1992.
• My Name is William Tell, Confluence Press, 1992.
• Holding Onto the Grass, Honeybrook Press, 1992, reprinted, Weatherlight Press, 1994.
• Who Are You Really Wanderer?, Honeybrook Press, 1993.
• The Darkness Around Us Is Deep: Selected Poems of William Stafford, edited and with an introduction by Robert Bly, HarperPerennial, 1993.
• Learning to Live in the World: Earth Poems by William Stafford, Harcourt, Brace, & Company, 1994.
• The Methow River Poems, Confluence Press, 1995.
• Even In Quiet Places, Confluence Press, 1996.
• The Way It Is: New and Selected Poems, introduction by Naomi Shihab Nye, Graywolf Press, 1998.

Prosa

• Down in My Heart (memoir). 1947. Reprint. Elgin, Ill.: Brethren Publishing House; Columbia, S.C.: Bench Press, 1985.
• Winterward. Ph.D., diss. University of Iowa, 1954.
• Writing the Australian Crawl. Views on the Writer's Vocation (essays and reviews). Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1978.
• You Must Revise Your Life (essays and interviews). Ann Arbor. University of Michigan Press, 1986.
• The Animal That Drank Up Sound (children's book, with illustrations by Debra Frasier). New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1992.

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