| 1962 | Traveling Through the Dark. Stafford's second collection, following West of Your City (1960), wins the 1963 National Book Award and is praised for its sensitive reflections on the poet's Kansas upbringing and his Oregon home. Equally acclaimed collections would follow, including The Rescued Year (1966), Allegiances (1970), Sunday, Maybe (1973), and Stories That Could Be True: New and Collected Poems (1977). |


