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The Answers are Inside the Mountains - Meditations on the Writing Life (Hardcover, New)
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The Answers are Inside the Mountains - Meditations on the Writing Life (Hardcover, New)
Series: Poets on Poetry
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A volume in the Poets on Poetry series, which collects critical
works by contemporary poets, gathering together the articles,
interviews, and book reviews by which they have articulated the
poetics of a new generation.
In this fourth collection of reflections on writing and the writing
life, the late William Stafford's lifelong refusal to separate his
work from the task of living responsibly -- "What a person is shows
up in what a person does" -- rings clear.
The Answers Are Inside the Mountains collects unpublished
interviews, poems, articles, aphorisms, and writing exercises from
this great American man of letters and hugely prolific author, who
kept a journal for nearly half a century and produced over 20,000
poems -- a staggering output by any standard.
The book begins with the words "To overwhelm by rightness," a
phrase evoking the two demands Stafford made on himself: to write
daily, and to live uprightly. The Answers Are Inside the Mountains
lives up to those deceptively simple ethics, and confirms William
Stafford's enduringly important voice for our uncertain age.
William Stafford (1914-93) authored more than thirty-five books of
poetry and prose, including the highly acclaimed Writing the
Australian Crawl, You Must Revise Your Life, Crossing Unmarked
Snow: Further Views on the Writer's Vocation, and Traveling Through
the Dark, winner of the National Book Award for Poetry.
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