William Stafford (1) (1914–1993)
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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 mehr anzeigen 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. (Bowker Author Biography) weniger anzeigen
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Werke von William Stafford
Crossing Unmarked Snow: Further Views on the Writer's Vocation (Poets on Poetry) (1998) 53 Exemplare
The Answers Are Inside the Mountains: Meditations on the Writing Life (Poets on Poetry) (2003) 33 Exemplare
Five American Poets — Mitwirkender — 3 Exemplare
Hearing Voices 1 Exemplar
American Literary Review Vol. IV, no. 1 1 Exemplar
A Glass Face in the Rain 1 Exemplar
Unknown Good in Our Enemies: William Stafford Reads Poems of Reconciliation [Compact Disc CD] (2003) 1 Exemplar
It Comes Lightly Out of the Sea {poem} 1 Exemplar
At the Bomb Testing Site {poem} 1 Exemplar
Absolution 1 Exemplar
All About Light, Signed Limited Edition 1 Exemplar
Sleeping at a Friend's House. 1 Exemplar
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Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama (1995) — Mitwirkender, einige Ausgaben — 926 Exemplare
A Book of Luminous Things: An International Anthology of Poetry (1996) — Mitwirkender — 836 Exemplare
Poetry Speaks Expanded: Hear Poets Read Their Own Work from Tennyson to Plath (2007) — Mitwirkender — 152 Exemplare
The Poetry Pharmacy: Tried-and-True Prescriptions for the Heart, Mind, and Soul (2017) 126 Exemplare
War No More: Three Centuries of American Antiwar and Peace Writing (2016) — Mitwirkender — 87 Exemplare
Editor's Choice II: Fiction, Poetry & Art from the U.S. Small Press, 1978-1983 (Contemporary Anthology Series) (1987) — Mitwirkender — 6 Exemplare
Poems by Ghalib (The Hudson Review) — Übersetzer — 2 Exemplare
The New York quarterly : NYQ : Number 35, Spring 1988 — Mitwirkender — 1 Exemplar
Out Of Sight *90: A Primer of Domestic Poetry — Mitwirkender — 1 Exemplar
Dacotah territory 5 summer-fall 1973 — Mitwirkender — 1 Exemplar
The North Dakota quarterly : vol. 50, no 4, Fall 1982 — Mitwirkender — 1 Exemplar
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- Rechtmäßiger Name
- Stafford, William Edgar
- Andere Namen
- Stafford, William E.
- Geburtstag
- 1914-01-17
- Todestag
- 1993-08-28
- Geschlecht
- male
- Nationalität
- USA
- Geburtsort
- Hutchinson, Kansas, USA
- Sterbeort
- Lake Oswego, Oregon, USA
- Wohnorte
- Liberal, Kansas, USA
North Manchester, Indiana, USA
Portland, Oregon, USA - Ausbildung
- University of Kansas
University of Iowa - Berufe
- professor
poet - Beziehungen
- Stafford, Kim Robert (son)
Bly, Robert (friend) - Organisationen
- Fellowship of Reconciliation
Civilian Public Service
Church of the Brethren
Lewis & Clark College
Manchester College - Preise und Auszeichnungen
- Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress (1970-1971)
Poet Laureate of Oregon (1975-1993)
Nation Book Award (1963)
Shelley Memorial Award (1963/1964)
Frost Medal (1992/1993)
American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award ( [1981]) (Zeige alle 7)
Western Literature Association's Distinguished Achievement Award (1976)
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"Many things true when said, the world makes untrue."
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"Strange, the best part of a room is a window."
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