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On Bill Stafford's Birthday — a Visit to the Mountain A Newsletter For Poets & Poetry Volume 9, Issue 1 – Winter 2004 On Bill Stafford’s Birthday — A Visit to the Mountain By Sulima Malzin The opening lines of William Stafford’s The Magic Mountain poem, “The Magic Mountain,” seem to A book opens. People come out,bend best exemplify the 2004 Stafford this way and talk,ponder, love, wander around Symposium at Lewis and Clark College while pages turn.Where did the plot go? in Portland, which took place on January 17. Like visitors to the moun- Why did someone sing just as the train tain, people had come out to talk, to went by? Here come chapters with landscape all over listen, and to wander around with words whatever happens when people meet. Now and memories of the highly esteemed a quiet part: a hospital glows in the dark. poet, on what would have been his 90th I don’t think that woman with the sad gray eyes BOARD OF TRUSTEES: birthday. will ever come back. And what does it mean when Chair: Joseph Soldati, Port l a n d the Italian has so many ideas? Maybe Nan Atz en, Newb e r g Some 70 celebrants gathered in the a war is coming.The book is ending. Everyone Elizabeth Bar ton, Van c o u ve r small conference center at the has a little tremolo in them; all Patricia Carver , Lake Oswe g o Northwest Writing Institute to spend a are going to die and it’s cold and the snow, and the Don Colburn, Port l a n d Saturday morning exploring and pon- clear air.They took someone away. It’s ending, Mar tha Gatchell, Dra i n dering Stafford’s attitudes about paci- the book is ending.But I thought – never mind. It Sulima Malzin, Por tland fism and the writing life, and to learn closes. Paulann Petersen, Port l a n d something new about themselves. Shelley Reece, Port l a n d William Stafford Dennis Schmidling, Tua l a t i n Facilitating the interactive symposium “The Magic Mountain” copyright 1987, 1998 by the Estate of Helen Schmidling, Tua l a t i n were Kim Stafford, the Writing William Stafford. Reprinted from The Way It Is: New & Selected Ann Sta l e y , Port l a n d Institute’s director; Paul Merchant, the Poems with permission of Graywolf Press, Saint Paul, Minnesota. Rich Wan d s c h n e i d e r , Ent e r p r i s e William Stafford archivist; and FWS Nancy Win k l e s k y , Oregon City board member and NWI instructor, Ann Patty Wix on, Ashland Staley. Throughout the morning, the voice of Bill Stafford was heard playing from the CD, The Unknown NATIONAL ADVISORS: Good In Our Enemies—William Stafford Reads Marvin Bell Poems of Reconciliation. Material taken from the Robert Bly two most recently published books of Stafford’s Kurt Brown work, The Answers Are Inside the Mountains— Lucille Clifton Meditations on the Writing Life, and Every War James DePreist Has Two Losers—William Stafford On Peace And Donald Hall War, served as the catalysts for a morning of Maxine Kumin reflection and discussion. Li-Young Lee Ursula K. LeGuin Following introductory remarks by Kim and his Chris Merrill mother, Dorothy Stafford, Paul Merchant engaged W.S. Merwin participants in a spirited dialogue prompted by Naomi Shihab Nye questions posed in The Answers Are Inside the Gary Snyder Mountains, about the nature and purpose of poet- ry. Reflecting on his writing life in 1990, Stafford wrote: “Should poetry inspire? If not, is it all right if it does? … Are poets inviting others to engage for an interval in whatever topic the poem Kim’s daughter, Rosemary Stafford. Continued on Page 2 Friends of William Stafford is a non-profit organization dedicated to raising awareness of poetry and literature, using the legacy, life and works of the late award-winning Oregon poet William Stafford. 2 A Visit to the Mountain... Continued from Page 1 To close the program, Kim Stafford initiated dialogue from a selected list of his father’s daily writings. They were taken from is on? Is poetry a message?” People wrestled with the questions, a chapter entitled “Citizen Here On Earth” in Every War Has wondering what might lie behind or underneath them, but quick- Two Losers. Among them, from September 1967, “Those who ly realized that this was truly an experiential workshop, and that champion democracy, but also make a fetish of never accepting even if there were answers, probably none would be forthcoming anything they don’t agree with—what advantage do they see in from outside themselves. democracy?” Next, from an index card on which Stafford organized notes for Perhaps the most engaging discussion focused on writing from his writing classes, came this query: “Assessing Writing: 1) Is October of 1968: “The people we found alien in the 1940s— this topic significant? Yes. 2) Is the meaning clear? Yes. 3) Is the pressing for victory, setting up the cold war, developing the writer good? Yes. 4) Is the writing interesting? No. Can this bomb, strengthening the West—have turned against the war in sequence be justified?” There were no answers here either. Vietnam and have increased attempts to achieve ‘social justice.’ This change, though, is motivated and marked by much that still The third portion of Merchant’s presentation focused on the separates us: 1) aggression is a means of attaining the ends; 2) question, “What Happens When You Say or Write a Word?” the machinations of certain evil persons must be stopped; Here is some of what Stafford wrote in July of 1971. “Some 3) distrust, punishment, stern behavior is essential.” Not want- questions should not be asked—or, at least, not answered; for an ing something as simple as word changes to be construed as answer is an entry into a point of view or set of assumptions you answers, the group, nevertheless, suggested that it might be may not really share. The answers are inside the mountains.” reconciliation that attains the desired ends, that utilizing the As you might guess, the discussion that followed was lively, resources of everyone could deter the need for machinations, and thoughtful, and provocative. It even brought to mind, for some that mutuality may be what is truly essential. of Stafford’s former students, the frustration they felt when their teacher insisted that they find their own answers. So ended the visit to the magic mountain for this year. Seventy people, many of them strangers earlier that morning, had wan- The second part of the program, led by Ann Staley, directed the dered together through the ever-changing landscape of turning audience’s attention to four poems taken from Every War Has pages and stood here together, letting a part of their minds Two Losers. They were “Poetry,” in which the tender line, “it’s a escape. Now the book was gently closing, leaving everyone flower in the parking lot of The Pentagon” appears; “For The with their little tremolos and another year to go inside their own Unknown Enemy,” reprinted on page 12 of this newsletter; and mountains. “The Star In The Hills,” in which Stafford is slyly tempted to take an oath of loyalty to a star—but only if it’s bigger than A Memorial California. Last was “A Memorial.” In Nagasaki they built a little room After some discussion of all four poems, and listening again to dark and soundproof where you can the voice of Bill Stafford reading “For The Unknown Enemy,” go in all alone and close the door and cry. small groups came together to respond in writing to particular lines and phrases. People explored what “the great mutual dark- William Stafford ness” might be or how it felt to let ourselves “glimpse what our Used with permission from the Estate of William Stafford mind long turned away from.” Li-Young Lee Receives $25,000 Fellowship Ren o wned poet and Friends of William Sta f f o r d national advisor Li- Memorial Poetry Award. In his career, Lee has been awarded the Young Lee is the recipient of the 69th Fel l o wship from the Aca d e m y Lannan Literary Award, the Whiting Writer’s Award, and he of American Poets. This annual award is chosen by the Aca d e m y ’s received fellowships from both the National Endowment of the Bo a r d of Chancellors, which includes the current U.S. Poet Laurea t e , Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation. Louise Glück, and Yusef Komunyakaa. It is granted for “di s t i n - guished poetic achievem e n t ” and includes a stipend of $25,000. Past recipients of the Academy of American Poets Fellowships include Robert Frost, e.e. cummings, and William Carlos Williams. Li-Young Lee was born in Jakarta, Indonesia in 1957, and he and The academy was established in 1934 and gives away more than his family emigrated to the United States in 1964. He is the author $200,000 in awards every year to American poets in all stages of of several books of poetry including Book of My Nights (2001), their careers, and also administers the National Poetry Month, and Rose (1986), which was given the Delmore Schwartz which is April. You can visit their website at www.poets.org. FRIENDS OF W I L L I A M S T A F F O R D 3 Great Writing is Timeless in Nature, Moving in Spirit From the Chair Poet Stanley Kunitz, who is ninety- infuriatingly smug comforters, and come ashore with that band eight, said at a reading he was giving of Troy’s survivors to Rome before it became an Empire: “Aneas in Provincetown, Massachusetts, this gave the ship / Her head before the wind, drawing toward land / summer: “If we want to know what it At the Euboian settlement of Cumae” (VI.1-3).
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