© by William Edgar Stafford (1914 - 1993)
If you don't know the kind of person I...
Language: English
If you don't know the kind of person I am [ ... ]
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This text may be copyright, so we will not display it until we obtain permission to do so or discover it is public-domain.Confirmed with William Stafford, The Way It Is: New and Selected Poems, Graywolf Press, 1998
Text Authorship:
- by William Edgar Stafford (1914 - 1993), "A Ritual to Read to Each Other", copyright © 1998 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Forrest Pierce , "The Darkness Around Us", 2022 [ mixed chorus ], Greywolf Press
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