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“August” ([Santa Rosa Jr. College, 1983]). 36 x 50 cm. Poster for poetry reading in Newman Auditorium at Santa Rosa Junior College, Valentine’s Day, year unknown.

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“Cutting Loose” ([Winston-Salem, NC]: Palaemon Press, [1983]). 31 x 23 cm. Edition of 76 copies. The poem was written in August of 1982, and used (following a request recorded in Stafford’s daily writings for 16 November 1982) in a broadside dedicated to James Dickey. This is its only publication.

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“A Dedication” (Corvallis: Oregon State University, 1983). 28 x 22 cm folded once to 14 x 22 cm. Leaflet issued for the dedication of The LaSells Stewart Center with Stafford’s poem on one side and information about he center dedication on the recto.

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“Ode to Garlic” (Santa Rosa, CA: Clamshell Press, 1983). 28 x 16 cm. Broadside #9. Edition of 150 numbered copies.

Scope and Contents “A Pocket Book” ([Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, 1983). 22 x 16 cm folded twice to 11 x 8 cm. This piece of prose [first line: “One doesn’t learn how…”] was originally published in Stafford’s Writing the Australian Crawl (1977). It was modified into verse and titled “A Pocket Book” for the 1983 Portfolio issued by Centrum writing workshop under the direction of Tree Swenson. The portfolio includes eleven broadside by Stafford, Carol Bangs, William Kittredge, Michael McClure, Marvin...

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“Why I Am Happy” (Roslyn, NY: Stone House Press, 1983). 41 x 31 cm. Issued in an edition of 150 signed and numbered copies with an original wood engraving by John De Pol. Issued as a part of the portfolio titled: Portfolio One, 1983: Ten Illustrated Poetry Broadsides (1983).

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“With Kit, Age 7, at the Beach”

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“For a City Child” (Steilacoom, WA: Stanzapress, [1984]). 28 x 42 cm folded to 28 x 21 cm. Printed on gray paper with an illustration by Don Baker. Issued as one of the thirteen broadsides in the Stanzapress portfolio, 9 Northwest Poets. Other poets in the series include David Wagoner, Beth Bentley, Sonia Gernes, Sherry Rind, Laura Jensen, R.P. Jones, Jim Mitsui, and John Davies.

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“From Our Balloon over the Provinces” ([Gambier, OH]: Kenyon College, for Ohio Poetry Circuit, 1984). 23 x 30 cm. Variation has been noted in the paper size and paper type for this broadside. Engraving by K.B. Printed by hand on Japanese paper on a nineteenth-century Chandler & Price platen press.

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“Pilgrims” ([Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press at Centrum, 1984]). 24 x 16 cm. In Portfolio 1984, printed at Centrum under the direction of Tree Swenson.