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Tonight I read ten essential poems from the American poet Robinson Jeffers (1187-1962). Selections of Jeffers’s poetry are legion: many of them can be found here. The five-volume Collected Poems of Robinson Jeffers, edited by Tim Hunt and published by Stanford University Press, can be found here. You can read more about his life at the Poetry Foundationand Wikipedia. A larger selection of his poetry, which I recorded in 2020-2021, can be found here.
The poems I read are:
The episode ends with a 1941 Library of Congress recording of Jeffers reading his poem, “Natural Music.”
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