{"product_id":"the-way-it-is-new-and-selected-poems-9781555972844","title":"The Way It Is: New and Selected Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003eWilliam Stafford (1914-1993) was an earnest, perceptive, and often affecting American poet who filled his life and ours with poetry of challenge and consolation. \u003ci\u003eThe Way It Is: New and Selected Poems\u003c\/i\u003e gathers unpublished works from his last year, including the poem he wrote the day he died, as well as an essential and wide-ranging selection of works from throughout his career. An editorial team including his son Kim Stafford, the poet Naomi Shihab Nye, and the poet, translator, and author Robert Bly collaborated on shaping this book of Stafford's pioneering career in modern poetry. The poems in \u003ci\u003eThe Way It Is\u003c\/i\u003e encompass Stafford's rugged domesticity, the political edge of his irony, and his brave starings-off into emptiness.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Graywolf Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/01\/1999\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781555972844\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 268\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.92lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.02h x 6.32w x 0.84d","brand":"William Stafford","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36659638960284,"sku":"9781555972844","price":18.7,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_b9f9fb70-f943-46e9-bc99-ee67686bc381.jpg?v=1603895183","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-way-it-is-new-and-selected-poems-9781555972844","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}