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The William E. Stafford Archives, Series 8, Sub-Series 1: Books by Stafford in English, 1946-2010

Overview of the Collection

Creator
Stafford, William, 1914-1993
Title
The William E. Stafford Archives, Series 8, Sub-Series 1: Books by Stafford in English
Dates
1946-2010 (inclusive)
Quantity
12 linear feet
Collection Number
OLPb097STA
Summary
William Stafford (1914-1993) was one of the most prolific and important American poets of the last half of the twentieth century. This subseries of the collection includes all of Stafford's books where he is listed as author or co-author published in English. The Index to the entire Stafford Archives can be found at: http://nwda-db.wsulibs.wsu.edu/findaid/ark:/80444/xv83782
Repository
Lewis & Clark College, Special Collections and Archives

Aubrey R. Watzek Library
615 S. Palatine Hill Rd.
Portland, OR
97219
Telephone: 5037687758
Fax: 5037687282
archives@lclark.edu
Access Restrictions

This collection has no restrictions and is open for research.

Languages
English
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Biographical Note

William Stafford (1914-1993) was one of the most prolific and important American poets of the last half of the twentieth century. Among his many credentials, Stafford served as consultant in poetry at the Library of Congress, and received the National Book Award for his poetry collection Traveling through the Dark (1963). During his lifetime, Stafford wrote over sixty books of poetry that still resonate with both scholars and general readers. Stafford’s perspectives on peace, the environment, and education serve as some of the most articulate and engaging dialogues by a modern American writer about three of the most important issues of the second half of the twentieth century with lasting impacts on future generations. Howard Zinn, one America’s most iconic modern historians, was keenly aware of Stafford’s insight into modern American culture. Zinn claimed, “William Stafford’s prose and poetry, wise and eloquent, speak directly to the violence of our time, and to our hope for a different world” (from cover of Every War Has Two Losers).

The William Stafford Archives, donated to Lewis & Clark College by the Stafford family in 2008, contain the private papers, publications, photographs, recordings, and teaching materials of the poet William Stafford. The Lewis & Clark College Special Collections actively add to this collection by acquiring unique Stafford related materials.

Stafford wrote every day of his life from 1950 to 1993. These 20,000 pages of daily writings form a complete record of the poet’s mostly early morning meditations, including poem drafts, dream records, aphorisms, and other visits to the unconscious, recorded on separate sheets of yellow or white paper or when traveling, often in spiral-bound reporters’ steno pads. The archive also includes typescripts of poems submitted for publication and for use in readings. Stafford listed where he submitted each poem, and whether it was accepted for publication on the typescript. Each of his published collections, large and small, is represented by its gathering of documentary copies (typescripts), called by Stafford a “put-together.” Unpublished poems, poems published in journals, and reading copies of published poems were also gathered, in a virtually complete record from 1937 to 1993, totaling about 7,000 items. The collection also includes copies of all known Stafford books and translations. Stafford saved correspondence received, with an indication of the date of reply, and sometimes a copy of the reply, from the early 1960s to August 1993. Estimated at 100,000 sheets, the collected correspondence contains some full exchanges of correspondence initiated by WS. One such exchange is the correspondence with Marvin Bell on their sequence Segues. In addition to many photographs of and relating to William Stafford, the archive includes an estimated 20,000 photographs and negatives taken and developed by Stafford of fellow poets, family, friends, and Lewis & Clark College faculty. The archive provides documentation of Stafford's teaching career, including more than one thousand index cards, some dating from research at Iowa, others from later. These were much used in preparing for classes, workshops, and lectures. The files also contain scattered notes for workshops and lectures. The archive also includes course syllabi, and faculty documents relating to Stafford's teaching years at Lewis & Clark College.

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Content Description

Books printed in the English language.

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Use of the Collection

Restrictions on Use

Permission to publish, exhibit, broadcast, or quote from materials in the Watzek Library Archives & Special Collections requires written permission of the Head of Archives & Special Collections.

Preferred Citation

The William Stafford Archives, Lewis & Clark College Aubrey Watzek Library Archives & Special Collections, Portland, Oregon.

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Administrative Information

Arrangement

All of the books listed in this finding aid listed chronologically, and shelved according to Library of Congress classification numbers.

Location of Collection

Special Collections
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Detailed Description of the Collection

The following section contains a detailed listing of the materials in the collection.

  • Description: STAFFORD PS3537.T143 Z464 1971 : Down in My Heart

    M. A. dissertation, University of Kansas

    Dates: 1946
  • Description: STAFFORD PS3537.T143 Z464 1947: Down in My Heart

    Brethren Publishing House; Elgin, Illinois

    Dates: 1947
  • Description: Stafford Room Books: Down in My Heart

    Brethren Publishing House; Elgin, Illinois

    Dates: 1948
  • Description: STAFFORD PS3537.T143 W56 1954a: Winterward

    Ph.D. dissertation, University of Iowa

    Dates: 1954
  • Description: STAFFORD PS3537.T143 W4 1960: West of Your City

    The Talisman Press; Los Gatos, California

    Dates: 1960
  • Description: STAFFORD PS 3537 .T143 T7 1962: Traveling through the Dark

    Harper & Row; New York and Evanston

    Dates: 1962
  • Description: STAFFORD PS3537.T143 R4 1966: The Rescued Year

    Harper & Row; New York, Evanston and London

    Dates: 1966
  • Description: STAFFORD PN 45 .S7: Friends to This Ground

    National Council of Teachers of English

    Dates: 1967
  • Description: STAFFORD PS 3537 .T143 A6 1968: Eleven Untitled Poems

    The Perishable Press

    Dates: 1968
  • Description: STAFFORD PS3537.T143 W38: Weather

    The Perishable Press

    Dates: 1969
  • Description: Stafford Room Books: Talking Along in Our Not Quite Prose Way

    State Universit of New York; Brockport, New York

    Dates: 1969
  • Description: STAFFORD PS 3537 .T143 A8: Allegiances

    Harper & Row; New York, Evanston and London

    Dates: 1970
  • Description: STAFFORD PS 3537 .T143 T4: Temporary Facts

    Duane Schneider; Athems, Ohio

    Dates: 1970
  • Description: STAFFORD PS3537.T143 Z464 1971: Down in My Heart

    Brethren Publishing House; Elgin, Illinois

    Dates: 1971
  • Description: STAFFORD PS 3537 .T143 S6: Someday, Maybe

    Harper & Row; New York, Hagerstown, San Francisco and London

    Dates: 1973
  • Description: STAFFORD PS 3537 .T143 T44 1973: That Other Alone

    The Perishable Press

    Dates: 1973
  • Description: STAFFORD PS3537.T143 I5: In the Clock of Reason

    Soft Press; Victoria, British Columbia

    Dates: 1973
  • Description: STAFFORD PS3537.T143 E37 1974: The Earth

    Printed by Scott Walker, publisher of Graywolf Press at Port Townsend, Washington

    Dates: 1974
  • Description: STAFFORD PS3537.T143 G6: Going Places

    West Coast Poetry Review; Reno, Nevada

    Dates: 1975
  • Description: STAFFORD PS615.S6 N67 1975: North By West

    Spring Rain Press; Seattle, Washington

    Dates: 1975
  • Description: STAFFORD PS 3569 .T23 B7: Braided Apart

    Confluence Press Inc.; Lewiston, Idaho

    Dates: 1976
  • Description: STAFFORD PS3537.T143 G6: Going Places

    West Coast Poetry Review; Reno, Nevada

    Dates: 1976
  • Description: STAFFORD PS3537.T143 I496 1976: I Would Also Like to Mention Aluminum

    Slow Loris Press; Buffalo, New York

    Dates: 1976
  • Description: STAFFORD PS3537.T143 L3 1976: Late, Passing Prarie Farm

    Main Street Press; Northampton, Massachussets

    Dates: 1976
  • Description: STAFFORD PS 3537 .T143 S7: Stories That Could be True

    Harper & Row; New York, Hagerstown, San Francisco and London

    Dates: 1977
  • Description: STAFFORD PS3537.T143 D4: The Design on the Oriole

    Night Heron Press; Mount Horeb, Wisconsin

    Dates: 1977
  • Description: STAFFORD PN1064 .S77 1978: Writing the Australian Crawl

    University of Michigan Press; Ann Arbor, Michigan

    Dates: 1978
  • Description: STAFFORD PS 3537 .T143 A7: All About Light

    Croissant Press; Athens, Ohio

    Dates: 1978
  • Description: STAFFORD PS3537.T143 S57: Smoke's Way

    Graywolf Press; Port Townsend, Washington

    Dates: 1978
  • Description: STAFFORD PS3537.T143 T84: Tuft by Puff

    The Perishable Press

    Dates: 1978
  • Description: STAFFORD PS3537.T143 T86: Two About Music

    The Sceptre Press; Knotting, Bedfordshire, England

    Dates: 1978
  • Description: Stafford Room Books: Tuned in Late One Night

    The Deerfield Press; Old Deerfield, Massachussets and Gallery Press; Dublin, Ireland

    Dates: 1978
  • Description: STAFFORD PS3537.T143 A89 1979: Around You, Your House & A Catechism

    The Sceptre Press; Knotting, Bedfordshire, England

    Dates: 1979
  • Description: STAFFORD PS3537.T143 Q5 1979: The Quiet of the Land

    Nadja Press; New York, New York

    Dates: 1979
  • Description: STAFFORD PS3537.T143 T43 1979: That Meeting Place

    Gypsy Press; Irondale, Washington and Portland, Oregon

    Dates: 1979
  • Description: STAFFORD PS 3537 .T143 A63 1980: Absolution

    The Sceptre Press; Knotting, Bedfordshire, England

    Dates: 1980
  • Description: STAFFORD PS 3537 .T143 T46 1980: Things That Happen Where There Aren't Any People

    BOA Publications; Brockport, New York

    Dates: 1980
  • Description: STAFFORD PS3537.T143 W9 1980: Wyoming Circuit

    Tideline Press; Tannersville, New York

    Dates: 1980
  • Description: Stafford Room Books: Poems

    Caribe Bookstore; Yokohama, Japan

    Dates: 1980
  • Description: STAFFORD PS3537.T143 S55 1981: Sleeping at a Friend's House

    Scarab Press; Salisbury, Maryland

    Dates: 1981
  • Description: STAFFORD PS3537.T143 S64 1981: Sometimes Like a Legend

    Copper Canyon Press

    Dates: 1981
  • Description: STAFFORD PS 3537 .T143 G5 1982: A Glass Face in the Rain

    Harper & Row; New York, Cambridge, Philadelphia, San Francisco and London, Mexico City, Sao Paulo, Sydney

    Dates: 1982
  • Description: STAFFORD PS 3537 .T143 R6 1983: Roving Across Fields

    The Barnwood Press Cooperative; Daleville, Indiana

    Dates: 1983
  • Description: STAFFORD PS3537 .T143 S58 1983: Smoke's Way

    Graywolf Press; Port Townsend, Washington

    Dates: 1983
  • Description: STAFFORD PS593.E63 S7 1983: Segues

    David R. Godine Publisher; Boston, Massachussets

    Dates: 1983
  • Description: Stafford Room Books: Things That Happen Where There Aren't Any People

    BOA Publications; Brockport, New York

    Dates: 1983
  • Description: STAFFORD PS3537.T143 L57 1984: Listening Deep

    Penmaen Press; Great Barrington, Massachussets

    Dates: 1984
  • Description: STAFFORD PS3537.T143 S67 1984: Stories and Storms and Strangers

    Honeybrook Press; Rexburg, Idaho

    Dates: 1984
  • Description: STAFFORD PS3537.T143 W89 1985: Wyoming

    Amprsand Press; Roger Williams College, Bristol, Rhode Island

    Dates: 1985
  • Description: Stafford Room Books: Down in My Heart

    The Bench Press; Swarthmore, Pennsylvania

    Dates: 1985
  • Description: STAFFORD PS3537.T143 B7 1986: Brother Wind

    Honeybrook Press; Rexburg, Idaho

    Dates: 1986
  • Description: STAFFORD PS3537.T143 Z477 1986a: You Must Revise Your Life

    University of Michigan Press; Ann Arbor, Michigan

    Dates: 1986
  • Description: STAFFORD PS 3537 .T143 O7 1987: An Oregon Message

    Harper & Row; New York, Cambridge, Philadelphia, San Francisco and London, Mexico City, Sao Paulo, Sydney

    Dates: 1987
  • Description: STAFFORD PS3537.T143 Y68 1987: You and Some Other Characters

    Honeybrook Press; Rexburg, Idaho

    Dates: 1987
  • Description: STAFFORD PS3537.T143 A86 1988: Annie-Over

    Honeybrook Press; Rexburg, Idaho

    Dates: 1988
  • Description: STAFFORD PS3537.T143 W75 1988: Writing the World

    Alembic Press; Baltimore, Maryland

    Dates: 1988
  • Description: STAFFORD PS3537.T143 F55 1989: Fin, Feather, Fur

    Honeybrook Press; Rexburg, Idaho

    Dates: 1989
  • Description: STAFFORD PS3537.T143 S37 1989: A Scripture of Leaves

    Brethren Publishing House; Elgin, Illinois

    Dates: 1989
  • Description: STAFFORD PS3537.T143 H68 1990: How to Hold Your Arms When it Rains

    Confluence Press Inc.; Lewiston, Idaho

    Dates: 1990
  • Description: STAFFORD PS3537.T143 K36 1990: Kansas Poems of William Stafford

    Woodley Memorial Press; Topeka, Kansas

    Dates: 1990
  • Description: STAFFORD PS 3537 .T143 W55 1991: William Stafford: Contemporary American Poet

    United States Information Service; Warsaw, Poland

    Dates: 1991
  • Description: STAFFORD PS 3556 .L56 H43 1991: Hearing Voices

    Willamette University Press; Salem, Oregon

    Dates: 1991
  • Description: STAFFORD PS3537.T143 H57 1991: History is Loose Again

    Honeybrook Press; Rexburg, Idaho

    Dates: 1991
  • Description: STAFFORD PS3537.T143 L67 1991: The Long Sigh the Wind Makes

    Adrienne Lee Press; Monmouth, Oregon

    Dates: 1991
  • Description: STAFFORD PS3537.T143 P34 1991: Passwords

    Harper Collins Publishers; New York, New York

    Dates: 1991
  • Description: STAFFORD PS3537.T143 S44 1991: Seeking the Way

    Melia Press

    Dates: 1991
  • Description: STAFFORD PS3537.T143 A83 1992: The Animal that Drank Up Sound

    Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Publishers; San Diego, New York, London

    Dates: 1992
  • Description: STAFFORD PS3537.T143 H65 1992: Holding onto the Grass

    Honeybrook Press; Rexburg, Idaho

    Dates: 1992
  • Description: STAFFORD PS3537.T143 M9 1992: My Name is William Tell

    Confluence Press Inc.; Lewiston, Idaho

    Dates: 1992
  • Description: STAFFORD PS3537.T143 A6 1993: The Darkness Around Us Is Deep

    Harper Collins Publishers; New York, New York

    Dates: 1993
  • Description: STAFFORD PS3537.T143 W47 1993: Who Are You Really, Wanderer?

    Honeybrook Press; Rexburg, Idaho

    Dates: 1993
  • Description: STAFFORD PS3537.T143 W66 1993: Words in the Cold Air

    Western Slope Press; Salt Lake City, Utah

    Dates: 1993
  • Description: STAFFORD PS3537.T143 A6 1994: Learning to Live in the World

    Harcourt Brace & Company; New York, New York

    Dates: 1994
  • Description: STAFFORD PS3537.T143 A6 1994b: The Whole Wide World Pours Down

    The Library of Congress; Washington, D.C.

    Dates: 1994
  • Description: Stafford Room Books: Holding onto the Grass

    Weatherlight Press; Bristol, England

    Dates: 1994
  • Description: STAFFORD TR660.5 .A3427 1994: Listening to the River

    Aperture Foundation, Inc.; New York, New York

    Dates: 1994
  • Description: STAFFORD PS3537.T143 M48 1995: The Methow River Poems

    Confluence Press Inc.; Lewiston, Idaho

    Dates: 1995
  • Description: STAFFORD PS3537.T143 E94 1996b: Even in Quiet Places

    Confluence Press Inc.; Lewiston, Idaho

    Dates: 1996
  • Description: Stafford Room Books: Traveling through the Dark

    Weatherlight Press; Bristol, England

    Dates: 1997
  • Description: STAFFORD PS3537.T143 W37 1998: The Way It Is

    Graywolf Press; Saint Paul, Minnesota

    Dates: 1998
  • Description: STAFFORD PS3537.T143 Z463 1998: Crossing Unmarked Snow

    University of Michigan Press; Ann Arbor, Michigan

    Dates: 1998
  • Description: STAFFORD PS3537.T143 Z464 1998: Down in My Heart

    Oregon State University Press; Corvallis, Oregon

    Dates: 1998
  • Description: Stafford Room Books: There's a Thread You Follow

    Dates: 1998
  • Description: Stafford Room Books: A Scripture of Leaves

    Brethren Publishing House; Elgin, Illinois

    Dates: 1999
  • Description: STAFFORD PS3537.T143 Y68 2002: You Reading This, Be Ready

    Cedar Fence Press; St. Paul Minnesota

    Dates: 2002
  • Description: STAFFORD PS3537.T143 A6 2003: Every War Has Two Losers

    Milkweed Editions; Minneapolis, Minnesota

    Dates: 2003
  • Description: STAFFORD PS3537.T143 Z4627 2003: The Answers Are Inside the Mountains

    University of Michigan Press; Ann Arbor, Michigan

    Dates: 2003
  • Description: Stafford Room Books: You Reading This, Be Ready

    Second Edition of 2002 version

    Dates: 2003
  • Description: Stafford Room Books: Report from a Far Place

    Edition Edda of Uppsala Sweden

    Dates: 2003
  • Description: STAFFORD PS3537.T143 T7 2005: Traveling through the Dark

    Dates: 2005
  • Description: Stafford Room Books: Ask Me

    Hurdy-Gurdy Press; Seattle, Washington

    Dates: 2005
  • Description: Stafford Room Books: Down in My Heart

    Oregon State University Press; Corvallis, Oregon

    Dates: 2006
  • Description: STAFFORD PS3537.T143 A87 2008: Another World Instead

    Graywolf Press; Saint Paul, Minnesota

    Dates: 2008
  • Description: STAFFORD PS3537.T143 K36 2010: Kansas Poems of William Stafford

    Washburn University Press; Topeka, Kansas

    Dates: 2010
  • Description: STAFFORD PS3537.T143 S29 2010: Sayings of the Blind

    Z'roah; New York, New York

    Dates: 2010

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Subject Terms

  • Pacifism--Poetry.
  • Pacifism--United States.
  • Poetry -- Authorship.
  • Poetry -- Study and teaching.
  • Poetry--20th century.
  • Poets, American--20th century.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Conscientious objectors -- United States.

Personal Names

  • Stafford, Dorothy
  • Stafford, William, 1914-1993--Archives

Corporate Names

  • Lewis & Clark College (Portland, Or.)

Geographical Names

  • Kansas.
  • Oregon.

Other Creators

  • Personal Names

    • Stafford, Kim (creator)
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