Another World Instead. The Early Poems of William Stafford 1937-1947.
Minneapolis: Graywolf Press, 2008. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket. "I stand and dream another world instead," wrote William Stafford in 1942. The other world he dreamed of was one of peace and freedom. Twenty-eight years old and a conscientious objector during World War II, he was assigned under penalty of law to work in camps, an internal exile within his own country. In this remarkable collection of poems, nearly all of them never before published, the first decade of Stafford's writing life is for the first time made available to readers. Another World Instead tells the story of a committed pacifist living in a time of war and a writer beginning a major life in American poetry. Item #29416
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