Poetry. "DREAMING THE GARDEN completes an impressive body of work that earned its author a Shelley Memorial Award, a National Institute of Arts and Letters Award, two NEA grants and the admiration of fellow-masters such as May Swenson, James Dickey, and Kenneth Rexroth, whos 1966 description is still accurate: 'Crystalline would be the word for the illuminating clarity of Ann Stanford's poetry—except that hers is not an inorganic but a living crystal. Few poets today better exemplify the criteria of 'wholeness, harmony, and radiance' that the great philospher said all art should possess. Hers is an intimate but luminious vitality."—James Cushing

Author City: LA HABRA, CA USA

Ann Stanford (1916-1987) lived her whole life in Southern California. With degrees from Stanford and U.C.L.A., she taught at California State University for twenty-five years. Her books were published by Viking and the influential Swallow Press, and her poems appeared regularly in The New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly, and many other magazines.