| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
xvii, 267 pages ; 25 cm |
| Note |
Includes indexes. |
| Contents |
Stories That Could Be True (1977) -- Believing : Our Story ; Always ; A Story That Could Be True ; The Burning House ; Wovoka's Witness ; Things in the Wild Need Salt ; Blackbirds ; Some Evening ; Heard Under a Tin Sign at the Beach ; Accountability ; A Message from the Wanderer -- Being Good : Look ; Song Now ; At the Playground ; Artist, Come Home ; Wild Horse Lore ; Fictions ; My Party the Rain ; On a Church Lawn ; Ducks Down in the Meadow ; Another Old Guitar -- Learning to Live in the World : Slave on the Headland ; One Life ; The Little Girl by the Fence at School ; Growing Up ; At the Un-National Monument Along the Canadian Border ; Surviving a Poetry Circuit ; One of Your Lives ; Ask Me ; A Bird Inside a Box -- Whispered into the Ground : The Moment Again ; Apologia Pro Vita Sua ; Broken Home ; Islands ; Sitting Up Late ; One of the Years ; Whenever It Is ; A Bridge Begins in the Trees ; Peace Walk ; This Town: Winter Morning ; Whispered into the Ground. |
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West of Your City (1960) -- Midwest : West of Your City ; One Home ; Ceremony ; In the Deep Channel ; At the Salt Marsh ; Hail Mary ; Circle of Breath ; Listening ; A Visit Home ; The Farm on the Great Plains -- Far West : Walking West ; A Survey ; Our People ; In the Oregon Country ; The Gun of Billy the Kid ; Weather Report ; Vacation ; Willa Cather ; Small Item ; At the Bomb Testing Site ; Lore ; By the Snake River ; The Fish Counter at Bonneville ; Sauvies Island ; Watching the Jet Planes Dive ; The Move to California -- Outside : Bi-Focal ; Outside ; Boom Town ; Level Light ; Two Evenings ; Ice-Fishing ; The Well Rising ; The Ritual to Read to Each Other ; Connections ; Acquaintance ; On the Glass Ice ; Sayings from the Northern Ice ; It Is the Time You Think ; Sunset: Southwest ; Following ; Postscript. |
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Traveling Through the Dark (1962) -- In Medias Res : Traveling Through the Dark ; In Medias Res ; Elgy ; A Stared Story ; Thinking for Berky ; With My Crowbar Key ; Mouse Night: One of Our Games ; The Thought Machine ; Parentage ; The Research Team in the Mountains ; Holding the Sky ; The Job ; Prairie Town ; Conservative ; Tornado ; The Old Hamer Place ; The Woman at Banff ; The Tillamook Burn ; On Quitting a Little College ; Reporting Back ; The Poets' Annual Indigence Report ; In Response to a Question ; With One Launched Look ; B.C. ; Captive ; The View from Here ; Lit Instructor ; The Star in the Hills ; I was in the City All Day ; A Poet to a Novelist ; Universe Is One Place ; I the Night Desert -- Before the Big Storm : Before the Big Storm ; Things We Did That Meant Something ; At Liberty School ; Lake Chelan ; Summer Will Rise ; Fall Journey ; Late at Night ; The Museum at Tillamook ; A Dedication ; Chickens the Weasel Killed ; Requiem ; The Last Friend ; "The Lyf So Short ..." ; The Only Card I Got on My Birthday Was from an Insurance Man ; At the Old Place ; Love the Butcher Bird Lurks Everywhere ; Learning ; In the Museum ; Time's Exile ; Adults Only ; Wisteria Jones ; Birthday ; Glances ; Fall Wind ; A Pippa Lilted ; The Trip -- Representing Far Places : Representing Far Places ; Long Distance ; The Peters Family ; From the Gradual Grass ; In Fear and Valor ; The Title Comes Later ; At Cove on the Crooked River ; Last Vacation ; Looking for Someone ; What God Used for Eyes Before We Came ; Found in a Storm ; Returned to Say ; A Look Returned ; Late Thinker ; Interlude ; In Dear Detail, by Ideal Light ; The Wanderer Awaiting Preferment ; Vocation. |
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The Rescued Year (1966) -- The Tulip Tree -- Some Shadows -- My Father: October 1942 -- Back Home -- Across Kansas -- A Family Turn -- Fifteen -- Homecoming -- The Rescued Year -- Judgments -- Uncle George -- Aunt Mabel -- Strokes -- Our City Is Guarded by Automatic Rockets -- Believer -- Letter from Oregon -- A Farewell in Tumbleweed Time -- At the Chairman's Housewarming -- When I Was Young -- Doubt on the Great Divide -- Winterward -- The Epitaph Ending in And -- Keepsakes -- A Documentary from America -- Out West -- At This Point on the Page -- At the Fair -- Passing Remark -- At the Klamath Berry Festival -- Near Edinburgh Castle -- Following the Markings of Dag Hammarskjold: A Gathering of Poems in the Spirit of His Life and Writings : Prologue ; A Song Demonstrators in Mexico Sing in Troubled Parts of a City ; A Thanksgiving for My Father ; Jack London ; The Concealment: Ishi, the Last Wild Indian ; Glimpses in the Woods ; Walking the Wilderness -- Right Now -- From Eastern Oregon -- Once Men Were Created -- Across the Lake's Eye -- A Human Condition -- For the Grave of Daniel Boone -- Hunting -- Sophocles Says -- Near -- Recoil -- The Animal That Drank Up Sound -- Read to the Last Line. |
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Someday, Maybe (1973) -- Motorcycle, Count My Sins : An Introduction to Some Poems ; Thirteenth and Pennsylvania ; New Letters from Thomas Jefferson ; Glimpse Between Buildings ; For a Child Gone to Live in a Commune ; Old Dog ; Hero ; A Lecture on the Elegy ; That Time of Year ; A Girl Daddy Used to Know ; World Staccato ; A Living ; Trying to Remember a Town ; Waking at 3 a.m. ; Love in the Country ; Losing a Friend ; Some Days of Its Gift ; Dreams to Have ; The Escape ; A Little Gift ; Three Looks Out of a Window ; Hide and Go Seek at the Cemetery ; In a Time of Need ; Sleeping on the Sisters Land ; In the White Sky ; Weeds ; Room 000 ; In a Museum in the Capital ; Speaking Frankly ; Existences ; Friend ; Father and Son -- Wind World : Origins ; Indian Caves in the Dry Country ; People of the South Wind ; Touches ; Bring the North ; The Airport at Anchorage ; Report to Crazy Horse ; Sioux Haiku ; People with Whetstones ; Stories to Live in the World with ; Wind World ; Deer Stolen ; The Earth ; A Scene in the Country by a Telegraph Line ; Owl ; The Widow Who Taught at an Army School ; The Lost Meteorite in the Coast Range ; The Little Ways That Encourage Good Fortune ; Crossing the Desert ; After That Sound, After That Sight ; Journey ; The Whole Story -- Report from a Far Place : In the Desert ; The Moment ; The Swerve ; Report from a Far Place ; Freedom ; The Little Lost Orphans ; The Eskimo National Anthem ; People Who Went by in Winter ; Witness ; Now ; Our Time's Name ; Blackberries Are Back ; Composed, Composed ; A Song in the Manner of Flannery O'Connor ; Have You Heard This One? ; Ozymandia's Brother ; Juncos ; Dear Mother ; The Stick in the Forest ; For the Governor ; Vespers. |
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Allegiances (1970) -- With Kit, Age 7, at the Beach -- Bess -- Monuments for a Friendly Girl at a Tenth Grade Party -- Holcomb, Kansas -- A Gesture Toward an Unfound Renaissance -- Reaching Out to Turn on a Light -- Remembering Althea -- The Last Day -- At the Grave of My Brother -- Father's Voice -- Observation Car and Cigar -- In Sublette's Barn -- Carols Back Then: 1935 -- Some Autumn Characters -- The Girl Engaged to the Boy Who Died -- Strangers -- The Preacher at the Corner -- The Gift -- Return to Single-Shot -- Remember -- Behind the Falls -- Montana Eclogue -- A Story -- A Memorial Day -- Quiet Town -- A Letter -- A Sound from the Earth -- Flowers at an Airport -- Texas -- Garden City -- Memorials of a Tour Around Mt. Hood -- Stories from Kansas -- Things That Happen -- Christianite -- What I Heard Whispered at the Edge of Liberal, Kansas -- On Don Quixote's Horse -- Vacation Trip -- Like a Little Stone -- Note -- Space Country -- The Climb -- An Epiphany -- Brevities -- Evening News -- Humanities Lecture -- In Fur -- Religion Back Home -- How I Escaped -- Mornings -- Spectator -- Any Time -- Folk Song -- Believing What I Know -- Where We Are -- Tragic Song -- At Our House -- Allegiances -- Deerslayer's Campfire Talk -- In Fog -- In the Old Days -- Time -- Earth Dweller -- These Days -- A Walk in the Country -- So Long. |
| Subject |
Poetry.
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Poetry. (OCoLC)fst01067691
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| Genre/Form |
Oregon authors.
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American poetry
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Stafford, William, 1914-1993. Stories that could be true. 1st ed. New York : Harper & Row, ©1977 (OCoLC)569523452 |
| ISBN |
0060139889 |
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9780060139889 |
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0060909188 |
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9780060909185 |
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