American writer (1917–1981)
Glen Coffield
Born June 5, 1917Prescott, Arizona , United States Died June 16, 1981 Mt. Vernon, Missouri, US Resting place Park Cemetery, Carthage, Missouri, US Occupation Poet Education B.S. Education Alma mater Central Missouri State Teachers College
Glenn Stemmons Coffield (June 5, 1917 – June 16, 1981) was an American poet and conscientious objector . He was born in Prescott, Arizona , and received a B.S. degree in education from Central Missouri State Teachers College in 1940. During World War II , he served in Civilian Public Service (CPS) Camp #7 in Magnolia, Arkansas, and then was transferred to the Camp Angel CPS camp near Waldport, Oregon in 1942.[ 1]
Coffield is sometimes called Oregon's first hippie.[ 2]
The artist Kemper Nomland was at Camp Angel, and attempted to capture Coffield's creativity in a painting donated to the Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Oregon .[ 3]
Coffield's first collection of poems Ultimatum (1943) was a one-man operation since he was author, typist, designer and illustrator, as with most of his subsequent works.[ 2]
His anthology Horned Moon was published by Everson's Untide Press in 1944. In the poem Indivisible he describes the world as more loosely strung than a nation, feeling pain more slowly "as when wild horses stampede on broken hooves".
Some of his poems were also published in the Untide Press magazine Illiterati .[ 4]
After the war Coffield did some acting in San Francisco with a repertory called The Interplayers led by Kermit Sheets . From 1947–1954 he ran the Grundtvig Folk School at Eagle Creek in the Mount Hood wilderness in Oregon, where he published numerous small poetry journals and newsletters. In the 1960s Coffield moved back to San Francisco, where he was severely injured in a hit and run accident. Coffield spent the rest of his life in Missouri, and died in Mt. Vernon.[ 3] [ 5]
Selected bibliography [ edit ] Songs for the winds 1941 – 74 pages
Ultimatum: (from the unforgettable) Untide Press – 1943 – 10 pages
The horned moon 1944 – 29 pages
A pewee's note: (poems: 1944) 1946 – 16 pages
The modern problem 1946 – 14 pages
Poetics (a summary) 1946 – 8 pages
The horse of summer 1946 – 26 pages
We think too much 1948 – 22 pages
The citadel (of the mind) 1948 – 14 pages
The waldport dilemma: (a second look) 1948 – 12 pages
The Grundtvig Folk School in Oregon: a creative experiment in education Free schools – 1949 – 8 pages
The night is where you fly: poems 1949 – 35 pages
Selected poems (1943–1950) 1951 – 56 pages
The silent waters 1950 – 53 pages
Three songs Rounce & Coffin Club – 1951 – 12 pages
Love and reason Reason – 1953 – 44 pages
Silence and slow time (a snowscape): a poem for Christmas 1953 – 8 pages
Northwest poems 1954 – 36 pages
Criteria for poetry 1954 – 45 pages
The old man who liked cats: (or Abra-Ki-Dabra-Ki-Boodle-Ki-Zam) 1954 – 14 pages
Northwest prints 1954 – 10 pages
Homage to King Lear: (a limerick sequence in five acts) 1954 – 34 pages
The metaphysics of wrong numbers 1955 – 22 pages
Rational power 1955 – 39 pages
Christmas tide, 1954–1955 1955 – 4 pages
New age anthology of poetry 1955 – 104 pages
Tea leaves and transit lines: poems of prophecy and technic 1956 – 14 pages
Sea climate and other poems 1956 – 14 pages
The Grundtvig experiment Free schools – 1957 – 58 pages
The Grundtvig poems 1957
The bridge editorials 1957 – 36 pages
Bridge anthology 1957 – 22 pages
Twelve selected poems 1958 – 12 pages
Bay area poems 1958 – 8 pages
Glenn Stemmons Coffield's art coloring book 1958 – 24 pages
Definition of God, and other poems 1960 – 12 pages
Creative method: technical essays 1960 – 110 pages
Thirty poems: The return and other poems 1963 – 37 pages
Poetry workshop: (thirty exercises in poetics) 1963 – 30 pages
The merry-go-round: (poems) 1969 – 32 pages
Thinking: (poems) 1975 – 30 pages
^ "Subject guide to Conscientious Objectors, including material on C.P.S. Camp No. 56, Camp Waldport, Waldport, Oregon, in Manuscript collections" . University of Oregon. Retrieved February 24, 2010 .
^ a b "Imprint: Oregon" (PDF) . Fall / Spring 1978 – 1979. Retrieved February 24, 2010 .
^ a b "NWDA Images: Painting of Glenn Stemmons Coffield, Oregon poet and WWII conscientious objector by Kemper Nomland" . NWDA . Archived from the original on December 19, 2009. Retrieved February 24, 2010 .
^ Philip Metres (2007). Behind the lines: war resistance poetry on the American homefront since 1941 . University of Iowa Press. p. 78 . ISBN 978-0-87745-998-9 .
^ "Glenn Stemmons Coffield" . Lewis and Clark College. Archived from the original on November 22, 2008. Retrieved February 24, 2010 .
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