The Poetry of Robinson Jeffers

Further reading

  • In a rare recording, Jeffers can be heard reading his "The Day Is a Poem" (September 19, 1939) on Poetry Speaks – Hear Great Poets Read Their Work from Tennyson to Plath, Narrated by Charles Osgood (Sourcebooks, Inc., c2001), Disc 1, #41; including text, with Robert Hass on Robinson Jeffers, pp. 88–95. Jeffers was also on the cover of Time – The Weekly Magazine, April 4, 1932 (pictured on p. 90. Poetry Speaks).
  • Jeffers Studies, a journal of research on the poetry of Robinson Jeffers and related topics, is published semi-annually by the Robinson Jeffers Association.
  • Erik Reece, "Bright Power, Dark Peace: Robinson Jeffers and the hope of human extinction", Harper's Magazine, vol. 341, no. 2044 (September 2020), pp. 52–59. "Jeffers's darkness, his contempt for his own century and his own kind, always scared me off... Since the election of Donald Trump, however, I've... begun to take Jeffers's grave warnings more seriously." (p. 52.)

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