Product Description: "In our time there has been no poet who revived human hearts and spirits more convincingly than William Stafford." ―Naomi Shihab NyeSome time when the river is ice ask memistakes I have made. Ask me whetherwhat I have done is my life...read more

Product Description: Wind on the Waves is a collection of fifty-two stories that embody the beauty, mystery, and allure of Oregon’s magnificent coast. Written by award-winning author and poet Kim Stafford, these wonderful vignettes celebrate the people, towns, wildlife, culture, and natural beauty of one of America’s most rugged, beautiful, and enchanting coastlines...read more

Product Description: Bret and Kim Stafford, the oldest children of the poet and pacifist William Stafford, were pals. Bret was the good son, the obedient public servant, Kim the itinerant wanderer. In this family of two parent teachers, with its intermittent celebration of “talking recklessly,” there was a code of silence about hard things: “Why tell what hurts?” As childhood pleasures ebbed, this reticence took its toll on Bret, unable to reveal his troubles...read more

Product Description: How can travel turn the lonesome broodings of confusions to the small findings of solitude? In the western landscape, how do we leave word for each other, we travelers and citizens of places known by few? What are the gifts of the landscape itself- the desert's dazzle, fragrance, storm, and stars? How might these heal sorrow? In this book, a crisis of marriage and identity sends a traveler out along the Lochsa Road from Oregon , to seek the healing solitudes of the moutains and deserts of Idaho, Montana and Wyoming...read more

A collection of new and selected poems by Kim Stafford.

The son of the acclaimed poet traces his father's prolific career as documented by his works, noting the senior Stafford's illuminations, silences, fearlessness, and impact as a writer.

Product Description: Suddenly, the sky cleared and the jet flew smoothlythrough the cloudless sky.The passengers were on the alert now. For the nextfew moments, the jet flew smoothly and everyone began to relax. The jetquivered again and just as fast, the quiverturned into a violent shudder...read more

Product Description: Book by Stafford, Kim, Braasch, Gary

Stories of life in the northwest accompany photographs of Oregon's natural beauty