Poet William Stafford
Poet William Stafford was an admirer of Loren Eiseley’s essay style. Two years before Eiseley died, he reviewed Eiseley’s autobiographical All the Strange Hours:
The reader of an Eiseley book is conducted into a world that is crowded with mystery. There are foreshadowings, flashbacks; there are characters who recur on a line of development that begins to be apparent—but never quite comes clear. Events happen in settings that contribute to the effect of those events. And all through the story the reader feels the presence of the narrator, a helpful presence, a knowing presence, but also a companion for the reader’s questioning and puzzlement and fear…
Review of Loren Eiseley’s All the Strange Hours, New York Times (1975)
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