Description
Book SynopsisRobinson Jeffers (1887-1962) is not only the greatest poet that California (and indeed the American West) has produced but a major poet of the twentieth century who occupies a prominent place in the tradition of American prophetic poetry.
Jeffers consciously set himself apart from the poetry of his generationby physical isolation at his home in Carmel, by his unusual poetic form, and by his stance as an anti-modernist. Yet his work represents a profound, and profoundly original, artistic response to problems that shaped modernist poetry and that still perplex poets today; how to reconcile scientific and artistic discourses and modes of vision; how to connect present-day experience to myths perceived as lying at the origins of human culture; how to renew the poetic language and how (or whether) to present art''s claim to moral, spiritual, or epistemological seriousness within representations of modern phenomena.
For Jeffers, as for no other important modern American poet,
Trade Review
"An edition intended to clarify a 'Jeffers canon,' establishing for times to come the verse legacy of a poet who looked on all things with the eyes of eternity." San Francisco Chronicle "Jeffers is the last of the major poets of his generation-Frost, Stevens, Williams, Pound, Moore, Eliot-to get his collected poems. Now that the job is at hand, it is done very well... Tim Hunt has been painstaking in his editorial preparation and judicious in his presentation... A great poet is ready for his due." Philadelphia Inquirer
Table of Contents
Foreword Albert Gelpi Preface Introduction 1. All flesh is grass 2. The wine cup of this fury 3. And after the fire a still small voice 4. The horseleech hath two daughters Conclusion The poet is dead Notes Index.
