Ask Me

"In our time there has been no poet who revived human hearts and spirits more convincingly than William Stafford." —Naomi Shihab Nye


Some time when the river is ice ask me
mistakes I have made. Ask me whether
what I have done is my life.
—from "Ask Me"

In celebration of the poet''s centennial, Ask Me collects one hundred of William Stafford''s essential poems. As a conscientious objector during Wo...