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Ask me : 100 essential poems
—Stafford, William, 1914-1993, author.
2014

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ISBN: 9781555976644

Description: xii, 109 pages ; 21 cm

Notes: Poems.

Contents:

  • Preface / by Kim Stafford
  • A story that could be true
  • Fifteen
  • Vocation
  • Ask me
  • The way it is
  • A message from the wanderer
  • Traveling through the dark
  • Mein Kampf
  • You reading this, be ready
  • Security
  • Thinking for Berky
  • Why I am happy
  • A ritual to read to each other
  • Serving with Gideon
  • Easter morning
  • Assurance
  • Our story
  • The little ways that encourage good fortune
  • A gesture toward an unfound Renaissance
  • Saint Matthew and all
  • A dedication
  • Learning
  • Objector
  • At the un-national monument along the Canadian border
  • For the unknown enemy
  • At the bomb testing site
  • These mornings
  • Distractions
  • Watching the jet planes dive
  • Poetry
  • The star in the hills
  • Peace walk
  • Explaining the big one
  • Entering history
  • "Shall we have that singing--"
  • In the night desert
  • The concealment: Ishi, the last wild Indian
  • Bess
  • staAmerican Gothic
  • Report to Crazy Horse
  • For my young friends who are afraid
  • Listening
  • Clash
  • Our kind
  • Aunt Mabel
  • At the grave of my brother: bomber pilot
  • A catechism
  • Circle of breath
  • A memorial: son Bret
  • A family turn
  • Ruby was her name
  • With Kit, age 7, at the beach
  • Passing remark
  • Once in the 40s
  • One home
  • Prairie town
  • Ceremony
  • The farm on the Great Plains
  • One evening
  • In the Oregon country
  • At the Klamath berry festival
  • Looking for gold
  • An Oregon message
  • Earth dweller
  • Spirit of place: great blue heron
  • The fish counter at Bonneville
  • Witness
  • Bi-focal
  • Across Kansas
  • Malheur before dawn
  • Starting with little things
  • Mr. Conscience
  • The well rising
  • Climbing along the river
  • Roll call
  • Things I learned last week
  • Ode to garlic
  • Reading with little sister: a recollection
  • Just thinking
  • Any morning
  • First grade
  • Freedom
  • When I met my muse
  • You and art
  • The animal that drank up sound
  • Keeping a journal
  • Indian caves in the dry country
  • Burning a book
  • Growing up
  • A farewell, age ten
  • Artist, come home
  • An archival print
  • Why I am a poet
  • Run before dawn
  • The last class
  • Looking across the river
  • Father and son
  • Choosing a dog
  • "Are you Mr. William Stafford?"
  • Smoke.

LCCN: 2013946920

Control Number: 975079

Publisher: Minneapolis, Minnesota : Graywolf Press, 2014.
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