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Brings together for the first time over four hundred aphorisms and twenty-six aphoristic poems by one of America's most essential poets of the twentieth century. In keeping with Stafford's varied interests, the aphorisms in Sound of the Ax explore many topics - war and peace, involvement, ageing, appearances, fear, egotism, writing, nature, animals, suffering, faith, living an ethical life, and so on - with his incisive view.

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Brings together for the first time over four hundred aphorisms and twenty-six aphoristic poems by one of America's most essential poets of the twentieth century. In keeping with Stafford's varied interests, the aphorisms in Sound of the Ax explore many topics - war and peace, involvement, ageing, appearances, fear, egotism, writing, nature, animals, suffering, faith, living an ethical life, and so on - with his incisive view.
Autorenporträt
Vincent Wixon, scholar in the William Stafford Archives, is the author of three books of poetry: Blue Moon, The Square Grove, and Seed. He has coproduced documentary films on Lawson Inada and William Stafford. His article written with Paul Merchant, "William Stafford and His First Publishers: The Making of West of Your City and Traveling through the Dark ," can be read on the Stafford Archives website. Paul Merchant is the former director of the William Stafford Archives at the Aubrey R. Watzek Library, Lewis & Clark College. He is the author of several poetry collections including Bone from a Stag's Heart and Some Business of Affinity. He coedited, with Vincent Wixon, William Stafford's T he Answers Are Inside the Mountains: Meditations on the Writing Life and Crossing Unmarked Snow: Further Views on the Writer's Vocation.