William stafford poetry

The poet William Stafford had developed an exercise that he called The Golden Thread. He believed that if you handled very carefully the detail of language and followed the detail through association, sound and tone it could lead you into a rich and meaningful world where you could begin to inhabit a more sacred universe. One of [William Stafford’s] most amazing gifts to poetry is his theme of the golden thread. He believes that whenever you set a detail down in language, it becomes the end…

William Stafford - Any Morning

William Stafford- Afterwards

July 1960 | Roy Basler, Bruce Berlind, Frederick Eckman, Robert Hazel, Richard Hugo, Philip Levine, James Merrill, Marie Ponsot, William Stafford, Ann Stanford, Robert Stock, Frank Copley, Josephine Jacobsen, Robert Sward

William Stafford poetry

January 1980 | J. McClatchy, William Pritchard, Ernst Pöppel, Stephen Dobyns, Sandra Gilbert, Lorrie Goldensohn, Bruce Guernsey, Josephine Jacobsen, Elizabeth Macklin, Gary Miranda, Francis Rosenberger, William Stafford, R. Vliet, David Wagoner, William Yeats, Peter Stitt