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Subject: STAFFORD, WILLIAM EDGAR (1914-1993)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AT MY DESK, by LINDA PASTAN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How many times
Subject(s): Stafford, William Edgar (1914-1993); Poetry & Poets


FOR WILLIAM STAFFORD, by HENRY SPLAWN TAYLOR    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Someone we love, old friend, has telephoned
Subject(s): Stafford, William Edgar (1914-1993)


LISTENING TO A STORYTELLER; IN MEMORIAM WILLIAM STAFFORD, by YORIFUMI YAGUCHI    Poem Source                    
First Line: In an ainu house an old ainu
Last Line: During the day in the nests of shy birds
Subject(s): Stafford, William Edgar (1914-1993)


MEMOIRS OF A MINIMALIST; REGARDS TO W.S., by ANN S. GOLDSMITH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Three women spinning
Last Line: The crone's yellow thumbnail, long and sharp
Subject(s): Stafford, William Edgar (1914-1993)


ON LEARNING THAT DYLAN THOMAS AND WILLIAM STAFFORD WERE BORN SAME YEAR, by PHILIP DACEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: The force that through the green fuse
Last Line: A rich yera breathed twice on us, and we were free
Subject(s): Stafford, William Edgar (1914-1993); Thomas, Dylan (1914-1953)