PAMLA Panel on Robinson Jeffers: Poetry, Nature and The West
PAMLA Conference (Nov. 20-23 in San Francisco) (Panel / In-Person) American / Poetry and Form
For Robinson Jeffers the ruggedly beautiful Big Sur region of the California coast with its remote ranches offered, he noted in the Foreword to his Selected Poetry, a view of “life purged of ephemeral accretions” yet also “conscious” of the “modern world” and “capable of expressing its spirit.” For Jeffers, Nature was both being in its ultimate form and a vantage point for critiquing “civilization,” and the poetry he developed ...