{"id":1086,"date":"2009-09-08T09:37:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-08T16:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2009\/09\/robinson-jeffers-and-big-sur.html"},"modified":"2009-09-08T09:37:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-08T16:37:00","slug":"robinson-jeffers-and-big-sur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2009\/09\/robinson-jeffers-and-big-sur.html","title":{"rendered":"Robinson Jeffers and Big Sur"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_yrL6yfubw8g\/SqaafOcw_zI\/AAAAAAAAAYo\/kagQ6Odcarw\/s1600-h\/sur2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_yrL6yfubw8g\/SqaafOcw_zI\/AAAAAAAAAYo\/kagQ6Odcarw\/s320\/sur2.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"><\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_yrL6yfubw8g\/Sqaae-fHU2I\/AAAAAAAAAYg\/kECyCTyYyG8\/s1600-h\/sur1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_yrL6yfubw8g\/Sqaae-fHU2I\/AAAAAAAAAYg\/kECyCTyYyG8\/s320\/sur1.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"><span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<div><span><span><span>&#8220;NO major American poet has been treated worse by posterity than Robinson Jeffers,&#8221; poet\/critic dana gioia wrote in 1987, lamenting the lack of scholarly attention, an up-to-date selected poems, or a full-dress biography of this california writer who was once read voraciously and still inspires environmentalists.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><span><span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>  <!--EndFragment-->   <\/div>\n<div><span><span><br \/><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span><span>a few things have changed since then, but the great poet of california&#8217;s central coast is still widely overlooked. <\/span><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/travel.latimes.com\/articles\/la-trw-jeffers6-2009sep06\"><span><span>HERE<\/span><\/span><\/a><span><span> is my humble attempt to try to bring this austere and charismatic man some attention. this is basically a travel piece about big sur and carmel, but with jeffers&#8217;s life, work and times &#8212; mostly the 1930s &#8212; providing the framework.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span><span><br \/><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span><span>so we visited Tor House &#8212; the stone house jeffers had built, and the tower he built, almost single-handedly, for his wife by rolling stones up from the pacific &#8212; the point lobos state park he captured in verse, as well as the henry miller library, dedicated to a writer who knew and admired jeffers.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span><span><br \/><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span><span>while watching at the pacific&#8217;s waves slam into the towering rocks, it was hard not to be struck with jeffers&#8217; vision of the california coast as both the geographic end of western culture&#8217;s grand experiment and a renewing source for it. <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span><span><br \/><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;NO major American poet has been treated worse by posterity than Robinson Jeffers,&#8221; poet\/critic dana gioia wrote in 1987, lamenting the lack of scholarly attention, an up-to-date selected poems, or a full-dress biography of this california writer who was once read voraciously and still inspires environmentalists. a few things have changed since then, but the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[468,112,295,90,294,29],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1086","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-green","7":"category-big-sur","8":"category-carmel","9":"category-poetry","10":"category-robinson-jeffers","11":"category-west-coast","12":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1086\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}