Wind on the Waves is a collection of fifty-two stories that embody the beauty, mystery, and allure of Oregon's magnificent coast. Written by award-winning author and poet Kim Stafford, these wonderful vignettes celebrate the people, towns, wildlife, culture, and natural beauty of one of America's most rugged, beautiful, and enchanting coastlines. Wind on the Waves evokes the feelings of wonder and joy, the miracle of existence, the significance of humanity-and its insignificance compared to the power of the sea. Being open to the world is a gift?one which Kim Stafford has shared so well. These…mehr
Wind on the Waves is a collection of fifty-two stories that embody the beauty, mystery, and allure of Oregon's magnificent coast. Written by award-winning author and poet Kim Stafford, these wonderful vignettes celebrate the people, towns, wildlife, culture, and natural beauty of one of America's most rugged, beautiful, and enchanting coastlines. Wind on the Waves evokes the feelings of wonder and joy, the miracle of existence, the significance of humanity-and its insignificance compared to the power of the sea. Being open to the world is a gift?one which Kim Stafford has shared so well. These words from one of Oregon's most influential writers are the song of life sung on the stage of the shore, and the wind, and the waves.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Kim Stafford has taught since 1979 at Lewis and Clark College, where he is the founding director of the Northwest Writing Institute and codirector of the Documentary Studies program. He also serves as the literary executor for the estate of William Stafford. He has worked as an oral historian, letterpress printer, editor, photographer, teacher, and visiting writer in communities and colleges across the country, and in Italy, Scotland, and Bhutan. Stafford has published a dozen books of poetry and prose, including The Muses Among Us: Eloquent Listening and Other Pleasures of the Writer’s Craft; Early Morning: Remembering My Father, William Stafford; and Having Everything Right: Essays of Place. He has received two National Endowment for the Arts fellowships, the Oregon Governor’s Arts Award, and a Western States Book Award.
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Finding a Place to Be Afraid Courtship at Indian Beach Cross the Water to Live Alone Rogue Wave Diary Entry: Our Coast Sweet Light Elegy Flavor of Solitude Brother Wind The Play of Moving Water More Flower than Leaf Phone Call Coffee at the Eavesdrop Cafe A Cove of Your Own Creatures of the Mountain I Thought It Would Be Bigger A Bubble Can't Last Long The Moon's Work A Bed of Salted Cedar Who Married Seal Ocean Lullaby Bear Cave Cove More Children Weekend at the Coast Skull of the Jellyfish Grandma Dewey Shell Ash at the Midden Pretty Intruder Where Goes the Wind? The Edge Effect in Jazz and Salt Cedar Pirate Knower and Forgetter Ship Catch Wind Salmon at Sweet Creek Lonesome Bliss A Wave's Purpose Loon in the Spruce Empty Handed Out There Hideaway Conversation at the Stump Go Ask the Owls A Tree with Arms Dune Buggy Dao Incandescence Lucille and the Secrets of Fog Storm Watch I Know Every Rock in This Harbor Razor Tongue of the Limpet A Tug on the Line Redhead Roundup Inkling Wind on the Waves Acknowledgments
Finding a Place to Be Afraid Courtship at Indian Beach Cross the Water to Live Alone Rogue Wave Diary Entry: Our Coast Sweet Light Elegy Flavor of Solitude Brother Wind The Play of Moving Water More Flower than Leaf Phone Call Coffee at the Eavesdrop Cafe A Cove of Your Own Creatures of the Mountain I Thought It Would Be Bigger A Bubble Can't Last Long The Moon's Work A Bed of Salted Cedar Who Married Seal Ocean Lullaby Bear Cave Cove More Children Weekend at the Coast Skull of the Jellyfish Grandma Dewey Shell Ash at the Midden Pretty Intruder Where Goes the Wind? The Edge Effect in Jazz and Salt Cedar Pirate Knower and Forgetter Ship Catch Wind Salmon at Sweet Creek Lonesome Bliss A Wave's Purpose Loon in the Spruce Empty Handed Out There Hideaway Conversation at the Stump Go Ask the Owls A Tree with Arms Dune Buggy Dao Incandescence Lucille and the Secrets of Fog Storm Watch I Know Every Rock in This Harbor Razor Tongue of the Limpet A Tug on the Line Redhead Roundup Inkling Wind on the Waves Acknowledgments
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