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The Way It Is: New and Selected Poems

The Way It Is: New and Selected Poems

Stafford, William

Hardcover

General Poetry

Publisher Price: $24.95

ISBN10: 1555972691
ISBN13: 9781555972691
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Published: Feb 1 1998
Pages: 296
Weight: 1.28
Height: 1.08 Width: 6.37 Depth: 9.26
Language: English

So, the world happens twice--
once what we see it as;
second it legends itself
deep, the way it is.

William Stafford filled his life and ours with poetry of challenge and consolation. The Way It Is gathers unpublished poems from his last year, including the poem he wrote the day he died, as well as an essential selection of works from throughout his career. An editorial team including his son Kim Stafford, Naomi Shihab Nye, and Robert Bly collaborated on shaping this book of Stafford's life in poetry.

The poems in The Way It Is encompass Stafford's rugged domesticity, the political edge of his irony, and his brave starings off into emptiness. What emerges here is Stafford's faith in language and the soul, those things that form the base for his artistic gyroscope. This collection reveals the depth and breadth of a poet for whom the art was to make a life richly lived.

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