Robinson Jeffers: Poet of California

by James Karman

Thank you, Story Line Press, for this revised and expanded edition of Karman's thoughtful critical biography of the great poet and incipient environmentalist. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

Genres: Poetry, Biography, Nature, Philosophy

180 pages, Paperback

First published April 1, 1987

Reviews

[Sur Cur Lengel · Rating 4 out of 5]

HE STANDS FIRMLY HERE (1-22-04)

Even a rock--
Agrain of silicon,
The wind, a grin--says
"I am."

[Cooper Renner · Rating 3 out of 5]

As seems to be my new norm for biographies about writers and artists, about halfway through this I started skipping paragraphs and pages that were critical commentary on “the works” instead of information about “the life.” A good short biography.

[Jim Stevens · Rating 5 out of 5]

An excellent biography about this extraordinary poet.

[Nan Hurley · Rating 1 out of 5]

Very little about the poet, mostly about the poetry.

[eryk · Rating 4 out of 5]

Robinson Jeffers is one of the greatest poets of the English language, and yet one of the least known and least appreciated...examples, the first line from The Excesses of God "Is it not by his high superfluousness that we know our God?"...or this one from De rerum virtute on the nature of beauty "It is the human mind's translation of the transhuman intrinsic glory."

[Lanny · Rating 3 out of 5]

A basic interesting biography about one of America's greatest, if little known, poets.