![]() It has been said that Stafford published too much, over sixty books of poetry. ![]() If I started illustrating this by quoting the brilliant passages that manifest these sides, the quoted passages might be as long as the book. The many sides to Stafford’s poetry-meditation, humor, protest, elegy, celebration, compassion, insight, empathy, intimacy, witness, and others-are all represented in this volume. isbn 9781555976644 This book ought to be called “One Hundred Quintessential Poems.” Any reader previously unfamiliar with William Stafford ’s poetry-if such a reader could be found-could not help but be mesmerized by this sequence, its sustained excellence, its deep and authentic voice of interiority. Graziano Krätli North Haven, Connecticut William Stafford. ![]() Amit Chaudhuri’s perceptive introduction provides the level of in-depth analysis that Mehrotra’s poetry clearly deserves. In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Ĭelebrated fifteenth-century bhakti (devotional ) poet from Benares and samples from a growing body of uncollected translations of modern and contemporary poetry, mostly Hindi but also Bengali and Gujarati. ![]()
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