Robinson Jeffers — a remark

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“Our ends tend to be rather sad, and we bawl at birth.”

A wry note on mortality bracketing a life · Letter to Jake Zeitlin, March 1935

About Robinson Jeffers

Robinson Jeffers

10 January 1887–20 January 1962

In the pantheon of American poetry, few figures stand as simultaneously revered and controversial as Robinson Jeffers, the brooding visionary who built his stone tower on the wild coast of California and crafted verses as uncompromising as the granite cliffs that inspired them. Born John Robinson Jeffers on January…

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