listen, baby, you can get Jeffers in almost any library . . . try his Such Counsels You Gave to Me, and his Roan Stallion, Tamar and Other Poems, esp. Roan Stallion. Jeffers is better on the long poems. I also think that Conrad Aiken, in spite of being a more or less comfortable poetic almost bitch-like type, did manage to plow through some points. His main fault was that he wrote too well; the silk-cotton sounds almost hid the meaning, and, of course, this is the game of most shit-poets: to appear more profound than they are, to sneak in little delicious delicate darts and then retire to
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