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The Answers Are Inside the Mountains : Meditations on the Writing Life (Poets on Poetry)
The Answers Are Inside the Mountains Meditations on the Writing Life - Poets on Poetry Author:William Stafford In this posthumous collection of his meditations on writing and the writing life, 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. — Stafford kept a journal for nearly half a century and produced over 20,000 poems -- a treasure trove o... more »f writing still being uncovered long after his death.
The book begins with the words "To overwhelm by rightness," a phrase evoking the two demands Stafford made on himself: to write well, and to live uprightly. This book lives up to those deceptively simple ethics. In his words William Stafford lives on as a voice for our times -- a bright light in a clouded age.
William Stafford, who died in 1993, authored more than thirty-five books of poetry and prose during his lifetime, including the highly acclaimed Writing the Australian Crawl: Views on the Writer's Vocation, You Must Revise Your Life, and Traveling Through the Dark, winner of the National Book Award for Poetry.« less