Stories that Could be True: New and Collected Poems

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Harper & Row, 1977 - Poetry - 267 pages

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Contents

Believing
3
Being Good
10
Whispered into the Ground
20
Copyright

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About the author (1977)

William Edgar Stafford was born in Hutchinson, Kansas on January 17, 1914. He received a B.A. in 1937 and a master's degree in English in 1947 from the University of Kansas and a Ph.D. from the University of Iowa in 1954. During the Second World War, he was a conscientious objector and worked in the civilian public service camps. He wrote about this experience in the prose memoir Down in My Heart, which was published in 1947. He taught at Lewis and Clark College from 1948 until his retirement in 1980. During his lifetime, he published more than sixty-five volumes of poetry and prose including The Rescued Year, Stories That Could Be True: New and Collected Poems, Writing the Australian Crawl: Views on the Writer's Vocation, and An Oregon Message. He received several awards including a Shelley Memorial Award, a Western States Lifetime Achievement Award in Poetry, and the National Book Award in 1963 for Traveling Through the Dark. In 1970, he was the Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress (a position currently known as the Poet Laureate). He died on August 28, 1993.

Bibliographic information

TitleStories that Could be True: New and Collected Poems
Colophon books
Perennial library
AuthorWilliam Stafford
PublisherHarper & Row, 1977
Original fromthe University of Michigan
DigitizedMar 13, 2008
ISBN0060139889, 9780060139889
Length267 pages
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Poetry / American / General
Poetry / General
  
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