Another World Instead: The Early Poems of William Stafford, 1937-1947 Book

Introduction by Fred Marchant

For Poems—'42 and '43

1937-1941

White Pigeons To Schumann-Heink Purpose Subject and Background Communication from a Wanderer I. Report of Kansas in Winter II. Report of the Nation Forest III. Report of the Southeast IV. Final Report From the Sound of Peace Discovery Home Town Women of Kansas Observation

1942-1945

At Roll Call Event A Vine Buzzards over Arkansas Inspirational Talk Escape Artist CO Park Project Friend Sky

"Their voices were stilled . . ."

Exile [I]

Exile [II]

The Prisoner Week End in Santa Barbara Stranger

"Time fills the canyon . . ."

Los Prietos [I]

The Country of Thin Mountains Dark-Browed Rough Pacifist Director Discovery [II]

Los Prietos [II]

The Way Men Walk Night Sound Rebels Breath Incident Snow CO's Work on Mountain Road Dar Down, A River

"They say sound is the war . . ."

Search Meditation Tragedy Walking at Night

"We call it the chaparral . . ."

Here, Now Apology Prison Camp

"While we sat on the lawn . . ."

"I was there when it happened . . ."

Family Statement Current Like Whitman Easy Nocturne [I]

"spoke about sacrifice . . ."

"Your tragedy before the ship goes down . . ."

"I do not know how that fine dust rises . . ."

More Than Bread

"Shall we have that singing . . ."

These Mornings Speech from a Play Nocturne [II]

Christmas Comes but Once a Year Immediate War Guilt Fate Devotion To a Gold Star Mother At a Little Church

"You might as well put . . ."

"The One who said 'No violence' . . ."

Counsel Fire in Lava Country

"It's an old story . . ."

We Kindred Home Little Sermon Isaiah, ‘44

"They taught me to be hurt . . ."

A Posy

"They flawed when struck . . ."

Listening Speech from the Big Play One Place I Saw Before the Big Storm

"Unto a great great deaf mountain . . ."

The Tall Animals Footnote Travel Report: 1945

All White Chicago Bridge, Evening

"That land spoke . . ."

Listener Flickerings

"I had forgotten the clown . . ."

The War Season Translation from the Yaqui Twelve Years Old The Midgets of War Mr. Conscience Nine-Year’s Dream

"The first thing that grows . . ."

The Sound: Summer, 1945

Victory

"A note on solemn war . . ."

On Attending a Militaristic Church Service Nine Years Old CO Week End

"Over the Candle we looked at us . . ."

Assay Review Note

1946-1947

Return "I thought they shouldn't turn the light so low . . ."

Easy Art

"They listened to him say his creed . . ."

To Those among Us Who Will Be Wise, and Know Deep Listening

"You dropped into my morning . . ."

Campanile Two Bits Worth

"When I walked along the earth . . ."

So Long Human Song Occurrences

"All around the biggest bay . . ."

Demolition Project Foundations Home Town from the Flyer

"While one bird bears the noon . . ."

Like Ours Humanity in the Service The Arrow Maker Muttered Creed Country Boy at College—Postwar Members of the Kingdom Night Words Smoke Trees At the Salt Marsh Those Few Super Market Possession Veteran

"There in the deep room . . ."

Beginning of Hostilities Two Kinds of Faith

"Your tears fell on my eyes . . ."

Who Blow A Leader I Met The Materials Faint Message Relic Every Breakfast Storm Warning The Verdict Graduate Work Sub-urban Postwar Niblets Inside Engines Too Big Faith Outside The Myth of the Windblown Hair The Right Thing It Was This Way Credentials Walking Papers Ruminations: Noon Rebel Telling You From the Back Row Wind Gift

"A million explosions went out . . ."

[Coda: a Dedication]

Notes Acknowledgments