Blog on Stafford book

William Stafford's book shows the truth that exists within him in an incredible way. William Stafford is so understated, but in it, he is brilliant. You can see when he speaks, and you can read in his writing, how cerebral he is... But where a lot of writers fail is that they are incredible cerebral, but they are a wallflower, just observing every thing and not participating in life... They end up writing about the death of life within life, but Stafford does not do this. William Stafford is immensely intelligent, but he is also always apart of life in a physical and very spiritual way. Stafford's poetry always shows this.
I think the most interesting part about William Stafford's writing is his connection to the spiritual realm that exists within life... Somehow he is in touch with the truth in the world and you can tell that he may not totally understand it, but he feels it and he knows it is there. I remember when we watched the video on him talking about this boy who had gotten lost in the Northwest Woods, and no one could find him, and there was a great probability that he was dead... What was beautiful is that he wrote that the child had just gone home, as there is no separation between the earth and ourselves. He felt the spiritual connection, and somehow understood it as well, that exists within our lives. We are connected to our world, and we were always meant to be, and our world is connected to us. The energy we have as humans is not separate from the energy in all of the world... And being in sync with that is one of the most important things we can understand from this life.
William Stafford did not have to be a Bukowski or Hemingway type, his personality was understated, but he understood and comprehended things that most people could never understand or even recognize... Stafford writes about the beauty that exists within our lives, that most people miss in so many ways. I think William Stafford should have a greater recognition for his work, and I hope that he always has it.