The former Poet Laureate of Oregon delivers a definitive collection of Poems that reveal his affinity for Native Americans, concern about the dangers of technology, and the love of nature.
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..
An editorial team including his son Kim Stafford, the poet Naomi Shihab Nye, and the poet, translator, and author Robert Bly collaborated on shaping this book of Stafford\'s pioneering career in modern poetry.
The Way It Is: New and Selected Poems gathers unpublished works from his last year, including the poem he wrote the day he died, as well as an essential and wide-ranging selection of works from throughout his career.
William Stafford (1914-1993) was an earnest, perceptive, and often affecting American poet who filled his life and ours with poetry of challenge and consolation.
The former Poet Laureate of Oregon delivers a definitive collection of Poems that reveal his affinity for Native Americans, concern about the dangers of technology, and the love of nature
