A Thousand Friends of Rain: New and Selected Poems, 1976-1998

by Kim Stafford

Book by Stafford, Kim

Genres: Poetry

120 pages, Paperback

First published March 28, 1999

About the author

Kim Robert Stafford is an American poet and essayist who lives in Portland, Oregon. Stafford received a B.A. in 1971, an M.A. in English in 1973 and a Ph.D. in medieval literature in 1979 from the University of Oregon. Since 1979, he has taught writing at Lewis & Clark College in Portland. He has also taught courses at Willamette University in Salem, at the Sitka Center for Art and Ecology, at the Fishtrap Writers Gathering, and private workshops in Oregon and Italy. He is the founding director and artist-in-residence at the Northwest Writing Institute. He is the son of poet William Stafford.

Reviews

[Rachel · Rating 5 out of 5]

The final soliloquy is fantastic! I enjoyed this entire collection very much.