Jeffers challenged readers to step outside themselves and see humanity as only one force among many. His poetry remains unsettling because it refuses comfort.

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"Imagination, the traitor of the mind, has taken my solitude and slain it."

Poems: www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/robins...

✒️ #RobinsonJeffers, American poet, #DOTD 20 January 1962. #Poetry

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"The world's in a bad way, my man, And bound to be worse before it mends;
Better lie up in the mountain here
Four or five centuries,
While the stars go over the lonely ocean."

✒ American poet and playwright #RobinsonJeffers was #BOTD 10 January 1887. #Poetry #Theatre

Tree of Heaven. Deanthropocentrism. The Human and the Humane in Bruce Conner’s “A Movie” (1958) A tomato plant growing from a dish rag on the basement floor; based on this discovery, I give the rest of the non-extinct biosphere about six months for a sixty percent recovery after humans make them...

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"This wild swan of a world is no hunter's game."
-- Robinson Jeffers

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"Imagination, the traitor of the mind, has taken my solitude and slain it."

Poems: www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/robins...

✒️ #RobinsonJeffers, poet and playwright, #DOTD 20 January 1962. #Poetry #Theatre

#RobinsonJeffers #Poetry

www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/robins...

"The world's in a bad way, my man,
And bound to be worse before it mends;
Better lie up in the mountain here
Four or five centuries,
While the stars go over the lonely ocean."

✒ American poet and playwright #RobinsonJeffers was #BOTD 10 January 1887. #Poetry #Theatre

Ascent to the Sierras (2019)
Symphonic Poem after Robinson Jeffers

Young People's Symphony Orchestra
David Ramadanoff, conductor

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“Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. 1 book/day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.”
21/20. Day 21. Must one stop?
#RobinsonJeffers (1887-1962), Dear Judas and other poems (NY: Liveright, 1977)
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