Places & Stories
A collection of poetry by Kim R. Stafford.
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Places & Stories
A collection of poetry by Kim R. Stafford.
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Places & Stories

Places & Stories

by Kim Stafford
Places & Stories

Places & Stories

by Kim Stafford

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Overview

A collection of poetry by Kim R. Stafford.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780887480430
Publisher: Carnegie-Mellon University Press
Publication date: 05/01/1987
Series: Carnegie Mellon Poetry Series
Pages: 88
Product dimensions: 5.30(w) x 8.30(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

KIM R. STAFFORD was born in Portland, Oregon, and has taught in some ten colleges in Idaho, California, and Oregon. He holds a Ph.D. in Medieval Literature from the University of Oregon. His previous books include Having Everything Right: Essays of Place (Confluence Press, 1986), which won a Western States Book Awards Citation for Excellence; Rendezvous: Stories, Songs, & Opinions of the Idaho Country (Idaho State University Press, 1982), a collection of folklore; and two collections of poetry: The Granary (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 1982), and A Gypsy’s History of the World (Copper Canyon Press, 1976). He has worked as a writer in the schools, printer, photographer, and oral historian. He is currently director of the Northwest Writing Institute at Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Oregon, where he lives with his wife and daughter.

Table of Contents


FEATHER BAG, STICK BAG Bobby Kennedy’s Rocker • Feather Bag, Stick Bag • There Are No Names But Stories • Thomas Jefferson Provides • Wilma Tells How • Shockley • Tubby Tells About His Uncle Mike • Liberty Dollar • Her Mother Tells Her • Juliaetta Coffee Blues • To Elko and Back • Losing One • Flower Drawn from Thorn • Natural Wonders • Later Voyage of the Trident Submarine • Living by Kindness • Grandpa, Come On In • Dare to Be Great • If We Shed Our Names • Salish Graveyard • When Saint Babylon Rides • Swans out South Jetty Road • Paulina Rodeo • Morning Report by Lady Makepeace • What Ever Happened to Gypsy Slim • Watching the Automatic Typewriter • Man Who Stole a Loaf of Bread • Sound Anthologist • Nineteenth Century News • Beautiful Death • Aunt Charlotte Said STARLIGHT BRAILLE This Woman Was Our Kite • Hacksaw Says Their Marriage Vows • Medieval Prayerbook • Book of Hours • Figurehead of the Good Ship MaryAnne • Permanent Woman, 1929 • A Pretty Message of Farewell • Biology Darkroom • At Caesar’s Palace • Anna Bollein • Restless Calligraphy of the Human Form • In a Photograph My Grandmother AFTER THE BATTLE Don’t Talk on the Sabbath • Under an Oak in California • Opening the Book • How We Live • After the Barn Collapsed • Finding the True Point of Beginning • Night Work in June • At Lost Lake • A Key to the Nature Library • Under the North Eave • Having Words with Belle • Pocatello Light • He Meant to Live • Near Minerva • Beautiful Old Wreck • All • Tears of the Slot-Eyed Child • Walking to the Mailbox • Joanne’s Gift • Back Home in the Shopping Center
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