Wagoner, David [Russell]
Wagoner, David [Russell]( 1926– ),born in Ohio, a professor at the University of Washington since 1954, is best known as a poet of quiet and accomplished lyric power, often writing of the Northwestern scene. His poems are collected in Dry Sun, Dry Wind (1953), A Place to Stand (1958), The Nesting Ground (1963), Staying Alive (1966), New and Selected Poems (1969), Working Against Time (1970), Riverbed (1972), Sleeping in the Woods (1974), Collected Poems (1976), In Broken Country (1979), Landfall (1981), First Light (1983), and Through the Forest (1987). He has also written numerous novels, some serious fables set in the present day, others lighthearted tales of amusing adventures in the 19th-century U.S. They are The Man in the Middle (1954), Money Money Money (1955), Rock (1958), The Escape Artist (1965), Baby, Come On...
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