Crossing Unmarked Snow Further Views on the Writer's Vocation

Name: Crossing Unmarked Snow Further Views on the Writer's Vocation
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ISBN: 9780472066643

ISBN-10: 0472066641

ISBN-13: 9780472066643

Edition: 1998

Authors: William Stafford, Paul Merchant, Vincent Wixon, William Stafford

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"It is this impulse to change the quality of experience that I recognize as central to creation. . . . Out of all that could be done, you choose one thing. What that one thing is, nothing else can tell you--you come at it over unmarked snow." --William Stafford A plain-spoken but eminently effective poet, the late William Stafford (1914-1993) has managed to shape part of the mainstream of American poetry by distancing himself from its trends and politics. Though his work has always inspired controversy, he was widely admired by students and poetry lovers as well as his own peers. His fascination with the process of writing joined with his love of the land and his faith in the teaching…

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List price: $20.95
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Publication date: 1/8/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 168
Size: 5.37" wide x 8.00" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.440
Language: English

William Stafford lives and writes in the Black Country. His work ranges from sci-fi and fantasy to crime and historical fictions - all of it with a sense of humour. This is his seventeenth novel.




Making Poems


Statements and Poems


The Experience of Now: A Dialogue with Students


Poems on Keeping a Journal


Opening the Moment: A Conversation with Steven Ratiner


Elemental Moves: An Interview with Michael Markee and Vincent Wixon



Encounters with Poetry


An Afternoon in the Stacks


Roethke's Way


Brother Antoninus - the World as a Metaphor


If I Could Be Like Wallace Stevens


Emily


In Memoriam: Richard Hugo, 1923-1982


Book Review: Keats's Poems


A Poet with Something to Tell You: On Philip Levine's Poetry


Suddenly Everything Became Clear to Him: Remembering Raymond Carver


Jeffers


The Current of Humanity: Carolyn Forche's Against Forgetting: Twentieth-Century Poetry of Witness


The Trouble with Reading


The Farm on the Great Plains


Fifteen


Traveling through the Dark


Stereopticon


Ask Me


Reaching into the Well


The Writing of "Bess"


Sometimes, Reading



The Art of Teaching


Eighth-Grade Art


Teaching Notes: Produce, Reflect, Perceive


Sharing Language: A Conversation with David L. Elliott


For Our Esteemed Companions on the Way: A Greeting at a Writer's Conference


No Praise, No Blame: An Interview with George E. Murphy, Jr.


Interviewing Tracker Dog: A Fantasy before the Daily Craft Lecture at Any Writers' Conference


Waking Up in Bremerton: An Invocation


Our Workshop Last Summer


Workshop Gleanings


Grooming a Poem after It Happens


Five Writing Exercises


Soul Food


Being Tough, Being Gentle


What Is a Current Event?


How These Words Happened