I recently discovered a first edition copy of the last published book of Robinson Jeffers' poems, The Beginning & the End, and other poems...

Robinson Jeffers Outside Tor House Carmel By The Sea

Robinson Jeffers

Robinson Jeffers was the first poet to introduce the idea of wild and untamed California spaces to a national audience. The "California Poet," Jeffers was especially fond of the rugged coastline just north of Big Sur. Robinson Jeffers smokes a pipe In 1914, Robinson (or Robin, as he liked to be called) and his wife Una moved to Carmel. It was an escape: The two had met and become lovers while Una was married. Their affair was so scandalous it became news in the Los Angeles Times. Una Jeffers…

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Organic wholeness, the wholeness of life and things, the divine beauty of the universe. Love that, not man Apart from that, or else you will share man's pitiful confusions... Robinson Jeffers - Wikiquote

NIGHT The ebb slips from the rock, the sunken Tide-rocks lift streaming shoulders Out of the slack, the slow west Sombering its torch; a ship’s light Shows faintly, far out, Over the weight o…

Nature knows that people are a tide that swells and in time will ebb, and all their works dissolve ... As for us: We must uncenter our minds from ourselves. We must unhumanize our views a little and become confident as the rock and ocean that we are made from.

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