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Subject: JEFFERS, ROBINSON (1887-1962)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AN EPISTLE TO ROBINSON JEFFERS, by MARGARET FERGUSON GIBSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sick at heart, I want poor bitch cassandra
Alternate Author Name(s): Gibson, Margaret
Subject(s): Jeffers, Robinson (1887-1962)


CARMEL, by DENNIS SCHMITZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: Vulgar paw-prints on the bmw
Last Line: But you pray to it -- just in case
Subject(s): Jeffers, Robinson (1887-1962); Poetry And Poets


FAILED TRIBUTE TO THE STONEMASON OF TOR HOUSE, ROBINSON JEFFERS, by JAMES TATE    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We traveled down to see your house
Subject(s): Disappointment; Carmel, California; Jeffers, Robinson (1887-1962)


JEFFERS, by MARK JARMAN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: To raise a stump of rock into a tower, rolling a stone / in place as the years pass.
Last Line: Loved ones reappear, and you will sleep
Subject(s): Jeffers, Robinson (1887-1962)


POET IS DEAD, by WILLIAM EVERSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the evening the dusk
Last Line: Stun themselves in the sea
Alternate Author Name(s): Antoninus, Brother
Subject(s): Jeffers, Robinson (1887-1962)


RETURN OF ROBINSON JEFFERS, by ROBERT HASS    Poem Source     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He shuddered briefly and stared down the long valley
Last Line: Beyond the leached ashes of dead fire, %the small jeweled hunger in the seabirds' eye
Subject(s): Jeffers, Robinson (1887-1962)


THE POET IS DEAD, by WILLIAM EVERSON    Poem Full Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the evening the dusk
Alternate Author Name(s): Antoninus, Brother
Subject(s): Jeffers, Robinson (1887-1962)


THE RETURN OF ROBINSON JEFFERS, by ROBERT HASS    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He shuddered briefly and stared down the long valley
Last Line: The small jeweled hunger in the seabird’s eye
Subject(s): Jeffers, Robinson (1887-1962)


TO ROBINSON JEFFERS, by CZESLAW MILOSZ    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If you have not read the slavic poets
Last Line: Against the mute and treacherous might %than to proclaim, as you did, an inhuman thing
Subject(s): Jeffers, Robinson (1887-1962)


UNA JEFFERS TO HER HUSBAND, ROBINSON, by BARBARA BRENT BROWER    Poem Source                    
First Line: All those rocks piled up
Last Line: And then your inhumanness %becomes superbly human
Subject(s): Jeffers, Robinson (1887-1962); Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights


WORD BASKET WOMAN, by GARY SNYDER    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Years after surviving
Subject(s): Grandparents; Jeffers, Robinson (1887-1962); Poetry & Poets; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers


WORD BASKET WOMAN, by GARY SNYDER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Years after surviving
Last Line: On the arch of her white %pubic bone
Subject(s): Grandparents; Jeffers, Robinson (1887-1962); Poetry And Poets