Idaho Commission for Libraries

Lochsa Road (1991), a series of linked reflections/narratives, describes Kim Stafford’s journey alone at a restless, dark point in his life over Lolo Pass, through Montana, and into Wyoming and Idaho. As he travels, Stafford is open to the whims of road experience, connects to the land he travels, and is spiritually reawakened along his "pilgrimage."

Kim Stafford, who grew up in the West, has taught ethnographic and environmental writing for many years and has won a Western States Book Award for his work, Having Everything Right. He directs the Northwest Writing Institute at Lewis and Clark College.

Theme Essay

http://libraries.idaho.gov/node/646
"Having Roots and Being Windblown: Contemporary Writers in the Western Landscape," by Janne Goldbeck, Idaho State University.

Information about Kim Stafford

http://www.lclark.edu/~krs/
Kim Stafford's web site.

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