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Selected PoemsRobinson JeffersEdited by Colin Falck10% off
Imprint: Carcanet Poetry
Publisher: Carcanet Press Available as: Paperback (128 pages) (Pub. Jan 1996) 9780856357084 £11.99 £10.79
And you are from surf-rattled skerries. From the heaths where, burying a warrior, they broke his bones so he would not haunt the living. From the sea-night which you forefathers pulled over themselves, without a word. Above your head, no face, neither the sun's nor the moon's only the throbbing of galaxies, the immutable violence of first beginnings, of new destruction.
The Czeslaw Milosz evokes the prophetic figure of the American poet Robinson Jeffers (1887 – 1962). Once the subject of a literary cult, Jeffers was later rejected by liberal taste and by the academic establishment. But in the last decade he has found a new audience. His indictments of the modern world are increasingly pertinent; the passion behind his writing, his subtle and strong rhythms and his clearsightedness set him in a class of his own. Colin Falck suggests that the neglect of Jeffers 'may be a measure of the spiritual voice at the heart of our culture, and a confirmation of some of his direst insights' – Jeffers's work has an energy and a spiritual intensity which are increasingly rare in poetry.
Colin Falck draws mainly from Jeffers's shorter poems for this centenary edition, but also includes an extract from the celebrated translation of Euripides's Medea.
Robinson Jeffers: American Romantic Selected Poetry, 1938 To the Stone-Cutters Night Boats in a Fog Phenomena Shine, Perishing Republic Joy Science From Apology for Bad Dreams Ante Mortem Summer Holiday Fawn's Foster-Mother An Artist Soliloquy Tor House Hurt Hawks Birth-Dues Evening Ebb Hands November Surf The Bed by the Window Second-Best The Broadstone Iona: The Graves of Kings Shakespeare's Grave The Cruel Falcon Rock and Hawk Rearmament Ave Caesar The Trap Love the Wild Swan Return Steelhead The Purse-Seine Self-Criticism in February The Beaks of Eagles Shiva Be Angry at the Sun, 1941 Prescription of Painful Ends Birthday The House Dog's Grave Watch the Lights Fade The Soul's Deser The Day is a Poem The Stars Go Over the Lonely Ocean For Una The Bloody Sire The Double Axe, 1948 Calm and Full the Ocean The Eye The Inquisitors Hungerfield, 1954 From Hungerfield Carmel Point Ocean The Beauty of Things The Old Stonemason The Deer Lay Down Their Bones The Beginning and the End, 1963 Full Moon The Monstrous Drought Cremation Granddaughter Nightpiece Vulture Salvage Hand My Burial Place Medea, 1946 From Medea Index of First Lines
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