{"product_id":"crossing-unmarked-snow-further-views-on-the-writers-vocation","title":"Crossing Unmarked Snow: Further Views on the Writer's Vocation","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eCrossing Unmarked Snow: Further Views on the Writer's Vocation\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eWilliam Stafford\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780472066643\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eUniversity of Michigan Press\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e1998\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003eFirst Edition\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eClean, unmarked copy with some edge wear. Good binding. Dust jacket included if issued with one. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\"It is this impulse to change the \u003ci\u003equality\u003c\/i\u003e of experience that I recognize as central to creation. . . . Out of all that could be done, you choose one thing. What that one thing is, nothing else can tell you--you come at it over unmarked snow.\"\u003cbr\u003e--\u003ci\u003eWilliam Stafford\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA plain-spoken but eminently effective poet, the late William Stafford (1914-1993) has managed to shape part of the mainstream of American poetry by distancing himself from its trends and politics. Though his work has always inspired controversy, he was widely admired by students and poetry lovers as well as his own peers. His fascination with the process of writing joined with his love of the land and his faith in the teaching power of nature to produce a unique poetic voice in the last third of the twentieth century.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eCrossing Unmarked Snow\u003c\/i\u003e continues--in the tradition of Stafford's well-loved collections \u003ci\u003eWriting the Australian Crawl\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eYou Must Revise Your Life\u003c\/i\u003e-- collecting prose and poetry on the writer's profession. The book includes reviews and reflections on poets from Theodore Roethke to Carolyn Forche, from May Sarton to Philip Levine; conversations on the making of poems; and a selection of Stafford's own poetry. The book also includes a section on the art of teaching, featuring interviews, writing exercises, and essays on the writer's vocation.\u003cbr\u003eWilliam Stafford authored more than thirty-five books of poetry and prose during his lifetime, including the highly acclaimed \u003ci\u003eWriting the Australian Crawl: Views on the Writer's Vocation\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eYou Must Revise Your Life\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"University of Michigan Press","offers":[{"title":"Crossing Unmarked Snow: Further Views on the Writer's Vocation | William Stafford | Paperback | 9780472066643 | Used: Very Good | Poetry 1659656","offer_id":48742054559896,"sku":"1659656","price":7.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/41_SNPH6G1L.jpg?v=1773846815","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/crossing-unmarked-snow-further-views-on-the-writers-vocation","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}