"William Stafford was born in Hutchinson, Kansas, in 1914. He spent four years during Wold War II in a conscientious objector camp. Later he taught at Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Oregon, and was poet laureate of that state for several years. He received the National Book Award for Travelling Through the Dark, and many other awards for poetry, including the Award in Literature of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, the Shelley Memorial Award, and the Robert Frost Award. He served as consultant in Poetry for the Library of Congress and on the Literature Commission of the National Council of Teachers of English, and read his poetry in Europe, Egypt, Iran, and India, among numerous countries. He died in August 1993."
From The Darkness Around Us Is Deep, published 1993 by HarperCollins.
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