The Darkness Around Us Is Deep: Selected Poems of William Stafford

Stafford's pungent and sharp-edged poems about his father and mother have been brought together here for the first time. Other sections include his great poems on the Midwestern and Oregon landscapes, his many poems on Crazy Horse, Ishi, and others that spring from his Native American heritage, and section reflecting his longtime peace work and refusal to serve war. The Darkness Around Us Is Deep makes clear what grave dangers face us from human aggression on the individual and collective levels. SC, 138 pages.