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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.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: general

• Full title: Early Morning
• Subtitle: Remembering My Father, the Poet William Stafford
• Author: Kim Stafford
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 304
• EAN: 9781555973728
• ID: 04808113
• Publisher: Graywolf Press,U.S.
• Weight: 644 g
• Dimensions: 228 × 152 × 28 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. November 2002

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