A simple text and collage illustrations present the story of a father's extraordinary bedtime story, told to his daughter, about a raindrop from the sky, a bubble from the ocean, and how we all got here, together.

We Got Here Together

Stafford, Kim R.

Children's Books

Harcourt Childrens Books

The Muses Among Us: Eloquent Listening and Other Pleasures of the Writer's Craft

The Muses Among Us is an inviting, encouraging book for writers at any stage of their development. In a series of first-person letters, essays, manifestos, and notes to the reader, Kim Stafford shows what might happen at the creative boundary he calls "what we almost know." On the boundary's far side is our story, our poem, our song. On this side are the resonant hunches, griefs, secrets, and confusions from which our writing will emerge. Guiding us from such glimmerings through to a finished piece are a wealth of experiments, assignments, and tricks of the trade that Stafford has perfected over thirty years of classes, workshops, and other gatherings of writers.Informing The Muses Among Us are Stafford's own convictions about writing--principles to which he returns again and again. We must, Stafford says, honor the fragments, utterances, and half-discovered truths voiced around us, for their speakers are the prophets to whom writers are scribes. Such filaments of wisdom, either by themselves or alloyed with others, give rise to our poems, stories, and essays. In addition, as Stafford writes, "all pleasure in writing begins with a sense of abundance--rich knowledge and boundless curiosity." By recommending ways for students to seek beyond the self for material, Stafford demystifies the process of writing and claims for it a Whitmanesque quality of participation and community.

Literature & Fiction

Univ of Georgia Pr

Having Everything Right: Essays of Place

This classic book of essays by Kim Stafford-praised as "the calm deliberations of a gracious intelligence" by Barry Lopez-is now available from Sasquatch Books.

History & Criticism

Confluence Pr

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. this pilgrim meets the rancher who has made his peace with hate, the oldest Rotarian, the saint of the homeless, and a woman who would be alone,.

Lochsa Road: A Pilgrim in the West

Essays & Correspondence

Sasquatch Books

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We Got Here Together

The Muses Among Us: Eloquent Listening and Other Pleasures of the Writer's Craft

Having Everything Right: Essays of Place

Lochsa Road: A Pilgrim in the West

Having Everything Right: Essays of Place