William Stafford

"The Osage Orange Tree, a never-before-published story by William Stafford, is about shy, young love complicated by misunderstanding and the insecurity of adolescence, set against the backdrop of poverty brought on by the Great Depression. In the story, the narrator recalls a girl he once knew. He and Evangeline, both shy, never find the courage to speak to each other in high school. Every evening, however, Evangeline meets him at the Osage orange...

Publisher's description: Born the year World War I began, acclaimed poet William Stafford (1914-1993) spent World War II in a camp for conscientious objectors. Throughout a century of conflict he remained convinced that war simply doesn't work. By his writings, Stafford showed that it is possible, and crucial, to think independently when fanatics act, and to speak for reconciliation when nations take sides. He believed it to be a failure of imagination...

"A picture book for children that illustrates a poem by the American poet William Stafford (1914-1993). This delightful lyric presents some of those things one sees in open country, among forests and mountains and streams, that makes one wonder about Bigfoot and other such cryptids, like Sasquatch and Yeti. The illustrations by Angelina Marino-Heidel are vivid, colorful elaborations of the poem, enhancing it with natural landscapes of compelling beauty...