“Things that Come” ([Santa Cruz, CA]: Two Pears Press, 1980). 56 x 38 cm. Artist Tom Killion. Edition of 200. Designed and printed by Richard Bigus.

“Ask Me” (Portland, OR: Press-22, 1981). 34 x 51 cm. Artist Henk Pander. Edition of 200 numbered and lettered copies printed by John Laursen and signed by author and artist. Published for Artquake 1981. One of William Stafford’s most frequently anthologized poems, it appears here in a fantastic landscape by noted Portland artist Henk Pander.

“Farewell—but Hail—to a Friend” (Mission, B.C.: Barbarian Press for the Conference on College Composition and Communication, 1981). 47 x 26 cm. Issued in a single-fold portfolio in laid-blue paper with title and colophon pasted on.

“A Ritual to Read to Each Other.” Moscow, ID: A Candlelight Vigil, 1981. 32 x 21 cm. From “Take Back the Night,” July 15, 1981.

“Things I Learned Last Week” ([Port Townsend, WA: Centrum, 1981]. 24 x 30 cm. An edition of 175 copies in the portfolio Soundings 1981, printed at Centrum under the direction of Tree Swenson.

“Traveling through the Dark” (1981). Unbound sheets of this poem were included as part of the Roadkills Anthology. See the Anthology section.

“West of Here” (Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, 1981). 20 x 11 cm. Reprinted from Sometimes Like a Legend.

“Daydreams” (Pittsburgh, PA: Chatham College / NEA for Poetry on the Buses, 1982). 28 x 72 cm.

“The Farm on the Great Plains” excerpt (Valencia, CA: California Institute of the Arts, 1982). 58 x 46 cm. Printed in black on newsprint. Advertisement for Stafford poetry reading on April 29, 1982.

“Ode to Garlic” ([Portland, OR]: 2601 Vaughn Restaurant, 1982). 25 x 18 cm. Written in January 1982 for the Winter Garlic Festival at 2601 Vaughn on behalf of Northwest Film Study Center, January 31, 1982.