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“Starting the Day” ([Cuttack, India: Peacock Books, 1988]). 17 x 11 cm. Fifth in a series of handset postcard poems.

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“The Gift” ([San Luis Obispo, CA]: Cal Poly Arts, Shakespeare Press Printing Museum, 1989). 31 x 24 cm. Writers Speak Series.

Scope and Contents “I have an appetite for finding the perfect fit of language...” [prose quotation], “Becoming a writer is just partly the learning of tricks...” [prose excerpt from You Must Revise Your Life], “Ask Me,” “The Farm on the Great Plains,” “Being an American,” “Serving with Gideon,” “Ground Zero,” “Report from a Far Place,” and “Traveling Through the Dark” ([Ashland, OR]: TTTD Productions, 1989). 36 x 35 folded three times to 18 x 9 cm. Leaflet viewers guide for the video documentary, William...

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“I have an appetite for finding the perfect fit of language...” [prose quotation] (Medford, OR: Arts Council of Southern Oregon, [1989]). 22 x 28 cm folded twice to 22 x 10 cm. A leaflet style promotional order form for the video documentary William Stafford: What the River Says.

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“Ask Me.” [Grants Pass, OR]: Rogue Community College, [1990]. 28 x 22 cm. Flyer for a Stafford Reading at Rogue Community College on May 3. Photocopied on pale green copy paper.

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“In the Deep Channel” ([Minneapolis, MN: Robert Johnson / Melia Press 1990]). 33 x 24 cm. Artist Robert Johnson. Edition of 80 copies signed by the artist, gathered in the Crown of Chaos portfolio of seven poems, by poets John Wills, William Stafford, John Dimoff, David Ignatow, Walt Whitman, James Wright, and Michael Kincaid. Poems and illustrations are printed in black on cream paper.

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“Th e Gift ,” “Preservation,” “An Archival Print,” “On the Quiet,” “Coming Back.” [Port Angeles, WA]: Peninsula College, 1990. Two 28 x 22 cm stapled sheets. Photocopied dot matrix text on white offi ce paper with header “Foothills Poetry Presents William Staff ord Noon 1 May ’90 Peninsula College Little Th eater.”

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“The Light by the Barn” and “Neighbors” (Vineburg, CA: Engdahl Typography, 1990). 32 x 48 cm. Artist Micah Schwaberow. Edition of 150 numbered copies. In Lee Engdahl’s Broadside Series Number 1 [portfolio], with nine other poets: Carolyn Kizer, Russell Edson, D. L. Emblen, Tess Gallagher, Donald Hall, James Schevill, William Dickey, David Wagoner, and Denise Levertov.

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“Quail” see “Survival” ([Merrick, NY: Cross-Cultural Communication, 1990]).

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“Survival” ([Merrick, NY: Cross-Cultural Communication, 1990]). 28 x 22 cm. Artist Alfred Van Loen. From the portfolio ABC Bestiary, ed. Stanley H. Barkan, (Cross-Cultural Communication Art & Poetry Chapbook 1), where it appears (in reduced format) as “Quail.”