[Rarebooks] FS: Group of letters by poet William Stafford

[Charles Agvent]

STAFFORD, William. 4 TYPED LETTERS SIGNED. Lake Oswego, OR:  Four
Typed  Letters  to the same correspondent, two SIGNED in full and  two
SIGNED  as Bill. The first letter is from 1984 and the last from 1990.
 From  the  first  letter, which is also the  most  substantial:  "your
letter  and  enclosed poems have encouraged me to formulate  something
that  has  been hovering: the way that interests me in writing is  the
way  of  bringing  what surrounds us into the temporary  and  shifting
relation  that language enables. I don't have hope of formulating  the
complex  idea that you help me glimpse." Stafford refers to a group of
poems  in  ONTARIO REVIEW, a copy of which accompanies these  letters.
Fine  group.  Some wrinkling but Very Good; magazine with  more  wear,
Good.                                                          $350.00

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