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5.0

William Stafford gets to the heart of the writer's mind in these thoughtful, sometimes funny essays. I turn to Stafford when I need to not take myself or my writing process so seriously and to get back into the zen of the thing. The way you simply let your consciousness get into that odd and resonant place of poetry, without caring if you ever write another good word. He is a master of letting the poem back into you unexpectedly.
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