Stevens, C. J. (1927 - )

Genre: Non-Fiction, Poetry, Short Stories

Although he has travelled extensively and lived in Portugal, Ireland, England, Holland, and Malta, Clysle Julius Stevens (aka John Stevens Wade) is a native Mainer, born December 8, 1927 in Smithfield where he currently resides. He graduated from Connecticut State Teachers College in 1953. Stevens has published over 500 stories, poems, textbook articles, translations, and books on a variety of topics during his extensive writing career.

Selected Bibliography

  • Lawrence at Tregerthen (1988; biographical, about DH Lawrence)
  • The Next Bend in the River (1989; about gold in Maine)
  • One Day with a Goat Herd (1992; about goat herding)
  • Maine Mining Adventures (1994)
  • The Cornish Nightmare (1996; DH Lawrence and the War years)
  • The Buried Treasures of Maine (1997)
  • Storyteller: The Life of Erskine Caldwell (2000)
  • The Supernatural Side of Maine (2002)
  • The Miracle of Bryan Pearce (2004)
  • Memoirs of a Maine Gold Hunter (2005)
  • Poetry and Stories
  • Loose Stones: First Poems (1954), under the name Clysle Stevens
  • Climbs of Uncertainty (1961)
  • Two from Where It Snows, Northeast Chapbook Series (1964, with John Judson)
  • Drowning in The Dark (1965)
  • Small World (1966, literary cartoons)
  • Poems from the Lowlands (1967, translator from the Dutch and Flemish)
  • Gallery, Poet & Printer (1969)
  • The Cats in the Colosseum (1973)
  • Well Water and Daisies (1974)
  • Each to His Own Ground (1976)
  • Waterland: A Gathering from Holland (1977, translator from the Dutch)
  • Some of My Best Friends Are Trees, (1978)
  • Homecoming (1979)
  • Up North (1980)
  • From the Flemish of Gaston Burssens (1982, translator)
  • Beginnings and Other Poems (1989)
  • Circling at the Chain's Length: Poems (1991)
  • The Folks from Greeley's Mill and Other Maine Stories (1992)
  • Hang-Ups: Poems (1993)
  • Selected Poems (1995)
  • Confessions: New and Selected Stories (1998)
  • Poems from Holland and Belgium (1999; collected and translated by Stevens)
  • Shepherd Without Sheep (2001)
  • Collected Poems (2003)

Selected Resources

Detailed descriptions of some of his books and a photo of Stevens are found on his website.