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	William Stafford - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		William Edgar Stafford (January 17, 1914 – August 28, 1993) was an American poet and pacifist, and the father of poet and essayist Kim Stafford.
		Stafford was born in Hutchinson, Kansas, the oldest of three children in a highly literate family.
		Stafford helped contribute to family income by delivering newspapers, working in the sugar beet fields, raising vegetables, and working as an electrician's mate.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/William_Stafford (550 words)

	Edward Stafford (politician) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Stafford was born on 23 April 1819 in Edinburgh, Scotland.
		Stafford sought to call an election and gain a fresh mandate, but his move was blocked by Governor George Ferguson Bowen, who had a strong dislike of Stafford.
		Stafford retired in 1878, strongly disliking the new premiership of former governor George Grey.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Edward_Stafford_(politician) (1263 words)

	About William Stafford
		Stafford was born in 1914, the same year as Weldon Kees and Randall Jarrell and John Berryman, three suicides; Delmore Schwartz was born in 1913, and Robert Lowell in 1917.
		When William Stafford talks or writes about his poems - as he has done in many interviews and in the prose pieces collected in Writing the Australian Crawl (1978) - he almost never views them as finished, analyzable objects of art, preferring instead to concentrate on the process of composition that brought them about.
		First, for the craft that does not call attention to itself - Stafford admits that he almost flaunts nonsophistication in his work - but which is always there, being necessary and important just by being there; second, though this is never distinct from the craft, for the downright power of what he has to say.
	www.english.uiuc.edu /maps/poets/s_z/stafford/about.htm (714 words)

	An Encounter With William Stafford LiteraryTraveler.com
		James Dickey called William Stafford one of those poets "who pour out rivers of ink, all on good poems." The poems themselves are often short, focused on simple local details, and unusually accessible, relying on the power of everyday speech to examine the world around the poet.
		What's amazing about Stafford's poems though is that their language is far from ordinary, for he captures the nuances of phrase and image like the engine of an expensive watch pivots on a the perfect clarify of its jewel.
		I had known William Stafford for over twenty years before I met him--known him, that is, in the way any reader comes to know an author, holding his ideas in my hands, believing his physical self somehow incapable of standing beside his work.
	www.literarytraveler.com /literary_articles/william_stafford.aspx (926 words)

	Former PM's - Official website of the Prime Minister of New Zealand
		Edward Stafford was born in Edinburgh in 1819 and educated at Trinity College, Dublin.
		Stafford arrived in New Zealand in 1843 and settled in Nelson.
		Stafford was seen as a moderate between the extremes of centralism and provincialism.
	www.primeminister.govt.nz /oldpms/1856-65-72stafford.html (363 words)

	A Literary History of the American West (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		William Stafford recognized that "poetry is the kind of thing you have to see from the corner of your eye." In Writing the Australian Crawl he tells how he learned the poet's craft at the University of Iowa where he joined Paul Engle's workshop.
		Stafford in his career as a poet has given us a new western myth–the man on the street, the pioneer father, mother, brother, the schoolteacher, the preacher, as they may be seen in your house, our house, or on Main Street.
		Stafford's verses are so tightly woven that his technical skills may go unnoticed while we examine his message, smile at his wit, or catch a breath with surprise as we read.
	www2.tcu.edu /depts/prs/amwest/html/wl0458.html (3879 words)

	Archive
		Kim Stafford is the Literary Executor of the Estate of William Stafford, of which the Archive forms the core.
		Born in Hutchinson, Kansas, as a boy William Stafford developed the reputation of being a skillful hunter, bow-maker, and a "kind of an Indian," as one old-timer told it.
		Copyrights to William Stafford's writing are held by various publishers, or by the Estate of William Stafford.
	www.lclark.edu /~krs/archive.html (1577 words)

	Oregon History ProjectOHP Oregon Biographies William Stafford (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Stafford was born in Hutchinson, Kansas in 1914, where his early encounters with nature ignited his creativity and passion for literature.
		Stafford was the Poetry Consultant to the Library of Congress from 1970 to 1971 and in 1975 Governor Tom McCall appointed him the Poet Laureate of Oregon.
		Stafford died on August 28, 1993, in Lake Oswego, Oregon at the age of 79.
	www.ohs.org /education/oregonhistory/Oregon-Biographies-William-Stafford.cfm (319 words)

	Artful Dodge - Original Interviews - William Stafford
		William Stafford was born in 1914 and grew up in a series of small Kansas towns.
		Stafford: Oh, right...oh, yeah, yeah, that helps me! I've thought of it in a much less nuancy way, that it takes a combination of humility and arrogance to be a writer.
		Stafford: You know, I realize that in one of George Eliot's novels she has a saying, someone says, "So-and-so ought to be born again.
	www.wooster.edu /artfuldodge/interviews/stafford.htm (2450 words)

	William Stafford: biography and encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		William Edgar Stafford (January 17, EHandler: no quick summary.
		William Randal Cremer William Randal Cremer quick summary:
		Sir william randal cremer (1838 - 1908) was a significant english pacifist....
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/w/wi/william_stafford.htm (1495 words)

	Alibris: William Stafford
		From 1942 to 1945, William Stafford was interned in camps for conscientious objectors in Arkansas and California for his refusal to be inducted into the U.S. Army.
		William Stafford (1914-1993) is widely recognized as one of the most important poets of this century.
		Stafford (1914-1993) is known as one of America's finest poets, and equally well known as a lifelong pacifist, maintaining a consistent nonviolent position through the course of a violent century.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/William_Stafford (717 words)

	Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska-Lincoln (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		William helped to support the family also, by delivering papers, working in the sugar beet fields, raising vegetables, and as an electrician's mate.
		In 1944 while in California Stafford met and married Dorothy Frantz, the daughter of a minister of the Church of the Brethren.
		Stafford wrote "personal" poetry says Judith Kitchen, while Glen Love described Stafford's poetry as a "communicative process." Although his father appears more often in his poetry, Stafford has stated that his mother's presence and behavior influenced his writing.
	www.unl.edu /plains/publications/resource/stafford.html (1892 words)

	William Stafford
		The poems in this collection--mostly connected to Stafford's Kansas origins--offer a vision of brotherly affection for the earth and its creatures.
		Judith Kitchen points out a "fixed vision" throughout his years of writing, a "central, unchanging sensibility." She further notes that "there is often an attempt to duplicate, at least in feeling, that original dream vision." The parallel of sky and horizon-line to a vision of spiritual unity contributes to a verse of magnitudes.
		Stafford's intention reveals itself, obliquely, in "many words associated with the Quaker faith" (Kitchen), such as "witness" and "friend." Description is spare, elliptical, and often abstract: it shapes a style as distinctive as a handprint.
	www.washburn.edu /reference/bridge24/stafford.html (792 words)

	AXE - Special Collections - William Edgar Stafford
		William Edgar Stafford was born in Hutchinson, Kansas, on 17 January 1914.
		He served as poetry consultant to the Library of Congress in 1970, a post now designated "American Poet Laureate." He was a professor of English at Lewis and Clark College, Portland, Oregon, until his retirement in 1990.
		Entry for William Stafford by "J. Russell Roberts, SR., Pacific University".
	library.pittstate.edu /spcoll/ndxstafford.html (261 words)

	William Stafford
		WILLIAM EDGAR STAFFORD was born in Hutchinson, Kansas on January 17, 1914, to parents who listened to their children’s ideas.
		Stafford's poetry is a glimpse into life, not long and drawn out visions.
		Stafford received degrees from the University of Kansas and a PhD.
	w3.gorge.net /tiltondesign/bio.html (677 words)

	Searching For the First Stafford and the Elusive Avice de Clare
		William richly rewarded Robert de (Stafford) Toeni by giving him ownership and control over a vast amount of land in the new Norman kingdom of England, virtually ensuring that Robert and his family would be extremely rich and socially prominent.
		William was haunted by the fact that he was born illegitimate and spent much of his young life trying to win the friendship, support and loyalty of those around him in getting them to recognize his "Ducal" authority.
		Many Staffords were born at Stafford castle over the centuries, but if you follow the history of the colorful Stafford family you learn that Staffords were born in many locations throughout England, In fact they owned and lived in numerous castles and manors throughout England.
	www.johnstafford.org /Ancient/First_Stafford.htm (6958 words)

	Poet: William Stafford - All poems of William Stafford (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		William Edgar Stafford was born in Hutchinson, Kansas, on January 17, 1914, to Ruby Mayher and Earl Ingersoll Stafford.
		William Stafford's Traveling Through the Dark: I am surprised how the poem is always misread.
		Stafford was a man who understood nature and creatures, and so I have to wonder what was he thinking in creating this bit of fiction.
	www.poemhunter.com /william-stafford/poet-8068 (306 words)

	[minstrels] Atavism -- William Stafford
		Stafford leaves you in that moment of expectation, unlike Mary Oliver, whose fox leaps from hiding like flame across your mind.
		William Stafford is one of my favorite accessible poets.
		William Stafford?", along with a facsimile of the (dying) poet's handwritten draft of the poem.
	www.cs.rice.edu /~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/1057.html (556 words)

	William Stafford (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		As both Robert Bly and Kim Stafford, William’s son, point out in introductions to their respective collections, Stafford stood the non-violent ground consistently, with a quiet that was as fierce as it was anti-strident.
		Charles Simic in an essay about Stafford said: "At the end of his great poems we are always alone, their fateful acts and consequences now our own to consider." Alone but for the poem.
		Stafford replies to the question posed earlier about what others think of us: "No, give them things, and then disappear." That is the story of his life.
	www.newsfromnowhere.com /sacredblur.html (712 words)

	About William Stafford
		William Stafford's words seem to express not just the posture of one man, but the sensibility of a profound listening.
		William Stafford had a large number of his writings published over his lifetime, and beyond.
		Robert Bly and William Stafford read a few of their poems and discuss the craft of poetry.
	home.earthlink.net /~neilre/aboutstafford.html (1317 words)

	Jonathan Holden: "William Stafford: Genius in Camouflage"
		When Stafford's son Kim visited Kansas State in the fall of 1998, as the primary speaker in a conference in honor of William Stafford, he and I talked about Brett's suicide in 1988.
		Stafford burst out to Marvin: "Must you?" It was a motherly gesture, pure reflex, like a mother instinctively reaching out to stop a toddler from walking into a busy street.
		When, the day after Stafford suffered his heart attack at home, Henry Taylor called me with the news, my first thought was, "How lucky to go like that, that cleanly," and that Stafford had indeed led a lucky life.
	www.valpo.edu /english/vpr/holdenstaffordessay.html (1669 words)

	TomFolio.com - William Stafford Biography and a list of his Books and Poetry
		Stafford remained in Oregon to the end of his life, becoming accepted as a regional poet of the Pacific Northwest landscape.
		Those describing Stafford’s poetry often resort to such words as "simple," "clear," and "natural." But his simplicity was always deceptive: his poems go deep and their clarity appears only after exploring multiple layers.
		Those describing William Stafford often use the terms "humble," "modest," "gracious," "strong," and "non-violent." He was all of those, but above all he was a poet of pure vision, a human being of enormous heart and sensitivity, and a passionate pacifist.
	www.tomfolio.com /AuthorInfo/authors/WilliamStafford.asp (538 words)

	Amazon.ca: The Way It Is: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		But all Stafford poems are worth reading at least once, and in the absence of a many-volumed Collected Poems, The Way It Is is a useful compromise, making available poems from his moral, religious, secular, maverick, political, and apolitical modes--all of them wise and at once exquisitely rhetorical and deeply imagistic.
		This latest and last living collection of William Stafford's work covers the past 20 odd years of his poetry as well as giving the reader some new, never before published work including the poem he wrote on the day that he died.
		In "Stories From Kansas", Stafford simplifies the voracious egos of humankind into silly yet proud tufts of grass, "Little bunches of/grass pretend they are bushes/that will never bow./ They bow..." "The Way I! t Is" is reccomended reading for those who like a little zen with their humility or a little salt with their watermelon.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/1555972691 (1355 words)

	MenWeb - Men's Issues: William Stafford and Robert Bly: A Literary Friendship - Videotape Review
		Robert and William talk about their own roots, how they became aware of each other's work and the influence they have had on each other.
		William Stafford describes his parents as "the quiet of the land." They taught him that we're all just people, for example by teaching him German literature in the anti-German pre-World War II era.
		To which Robert can only reply, "I hear you." William also talks about his "Un huh" method of teaching, which forces or encourages the student to make his or her own decision about whether a work is good.
	www.menweb.org /blystavr.htm (503 words)

	Christian Century: Peaceable poet: William Stafford's witness
		WHEN WILLIAM STAFFORD died in 1993, he was not the most famous or most critically acclaimed poet around, but he was certainly among the most beloved.
		To the many who knew him personally or through his work, he was not only an innovative poet, but one who managed to bring his life and his writing together into a seamless, striking witness to nonviolence and poetic freedom.
		He displayed a kind of fearlessness not usually associated with American men, rooted not in the determination to compete for alpha status or to prevail at whatever cost but in his twin commitments to active nonviolence and to adventurous exploration of and in language--the commitments that defined his life.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1058/is_7_121/ai_n5992715 (388 words)

	Edgar Wolfe Award Winner William Stafford
		William Stafford (1914 — 1993) was born in Hutchinson, Kansas.
		After settling in Oregon, Stafford wrote and taught for four decades, becoming on of the nation’s most prolific contemporary poets and the author of 35 books.
		Stafford advocated a free-style approach to writing poetry, encouraging writers to relax with language and work casually through the creative experience.
	www.kckpl.lib.ks.us /FOL/Stafford.htm (325 words)

	Citistates: William Stafford
		Bill Stafford is the chief strategizer, planner, briefer and leader for the annual delegations of Seattle’s business and political leadership visiting chief citistate capitals around the globe.
		Stafford is unabashed in explaining why he wants it for trade-dependent Seattle: “We are building the most internationally sophisticated leadership in the world.”
		Stafford prepares briefing books packed with local history, economic and political facts, issue summaries and press clippings.
	www.citistates.com /assocspeakers/w_stafford.html (262 words)

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