Vita

William Stafford (1914–1993) was the author of many widely admired volumes of poetry and prose. He won the National Book Award for his poetry collection Traveling through the Dark and served as consultant in poetry at the Library of Congress—the position now known as poet laureate of the United States.

Stafford’s The Way It Is: New and Selected Poems was reviewed in AGNI 49 by Eric McHenry.