Search Results: the rescued year poems by stafford william

New York, Evanston, London: Harper & Row Publishers, 1966. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good +/Very Good. Clean unmarked copy, dust jacket hhas some mild wear at the edges, dj now in a protective mylar sleeve. Pirie A5 first state with $3.95 price on dj flap, and fore-edge untrimmed.

New York::: Harper & Row,,, 1981... First Printing of the First Edition. A Fine copy in a Near Fine price-clipped dust jacket. In "The Rescued Year" Stafford deepens both his technique and his autobiographical associations, especially in the twenty memory-pieces of the opening section. Here the influence of Life Studies is evident, . A calm austerity, careful naturalistic details, muted rhymes and flexible cadences singularly express a subdued moral pathos, an intermingling of past and present, a commentary on one's allegiances, hopes, doubts, defeats. Symbolist strains, as well as social and political attitudes, inform the book as a whole; but it is the recurring imagery of seasons, landscapes, and particular people which best signify Stafford's instinctively humane temperament, the genuineness of his concerns, the lovely integrity of his lines.