Paul Merchant
Paul Merchant was director of the William Stafford Archives and was a Special Collections Associate at Lewis & Clark College. With Vincent Wixon he coedited two volumes of William Stafford’s prose: Crossing Unmarked Snow (1998) and The Answers Are Inside the Mountains (2003). A native of Wales. he taught for many years at Warwick University before taking up residence in Portland. His fourth collection of poems, Some Business of Affinity, was a finalist at the 2007 Oregon Book Awards. His translations from Yannis Ritsos are Monochords and Twelve Poems about Cavafy.
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William Stafford (1914-1993)
William Stafford, one of America’s most widely read poets, was born in Hutchinson, Kansas, in 1914 to Ruby and Earl Ingersoll Stafford, the first of three children. He was followed by brother Bob and sister Peg. He worked (sometimes beside his father) at hardscrabble manual jobs during the Depression, including …
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