Status Updates From Robinson Jeffers: Selected ...

Come peace our war, the progress of Europe and America/Becomes a long process of deterioration... One desires at such times/To gather the insights of the age summit against future loss, against the narrowing mind and the tyrants/the pedants, the mystagogues, the barbarians: one builds poems for treasuries, time-conscious poems. (Prescription of Painful Ends c. 1939)

"A little knowledge, a pebble from the shingle, A drop from the oceans: who would have dreamed this infinitely little too much?" (Science c. 1925)

"while this America settles in the mould of it's vulgarity, heavily thickening to empire, And protest, only a bubble in the molten mass, pops and sighs out, and the mass hardens..."

From Shine Perishing Republic (c.1925)

"be angry at the sun for setting/ if these things anger you" will be living in my head rent free forever. littany against getting upset about pointless shit fr fr

Me: oh this feels so contemporary, politically speaking. I wonder...
The book: 1937 :)
Me:
The book: he wrote that in 1937 :) :)

Hurt Hawks, my best friend Hurt Hawks ❤️

literally just skipping the horrible and overlong horse poem i stopped reading the anthology in the middle of because fuck the horse poem