Jeffers is among my favorite poets, by favorite being Yeats.
Posted by Bob Sykes at January 26, 2009 5:33 AMI keep hoping . . .
but not much.
On a pro-active note:
Anthony at WUWT just posted that he is looking for someone in Key West to check out a surface station.
http://www.surfacestations.org/
Posted by Cathy at January 26, 2009 1:31 PMHow wonderful it is that someone (other than myself) still reads and appreciates Robinson Jeffers!
Posted by Francis W. Porretto at January 26, 2009 2:15 PMVanderleun,
Find your own poems, man! We've got an unlikely synchronicity going on:
http://arspsychiatrica.blogspot.com/20009/01/sense-of-ending.html
(Oh well, Jeffers would probably find us both to be vulgar in our own ways).
Posted by Novalis at January 27, 2009 7:23 AMI never was much of a Jeffers fan until I toured his Tor House in Carmel...highly recommended.
Posted by ken at January 27, 2009 3:27 PMI have loved Jeffers poetry since my disaffected teens. He was without doubt a commie, and even though I am one no longer, the poems still resound.
Posted by teresa at January 27, 2009 7:11 PMDear Cathy, thank you for remembering. A soulmate in the ether!
Jeffers has this nagging quality. You keep thinking, Do I really understand him?
I believe Jeffers referred to himself as an anti-humanist. Certainly, that's the gist of his poems. Communism doesn't seem to fit him. I would not be surprised if some environmentalists embraced him. Not the watermelons, the paleoliths.
Also, Jeffers himself built at least some of the Tor House.
Posted by bob sykes at April 23, 2012 3:12 AM