Robinson Jeffers: Poems from “Hungerfield”

An episode from 11/5/2020: Tonight, I read a handful of poems from Robinson Jeffers's late collection, Hungerfield. The book, especially the title poem, is taken up with the death of Jeffers's wife, Una, in 1950:

• Animals
• Time of Disturbance
• The Beauty of Things
• The World's Wonders
• The Old Stone-Mason
• excerpt from Hungerfield
• De Rerum Virtute
• The Deer Lay Down Their Bones

Jeffers remains one of the few poets who remain just as strong, or even become a better poet, in old age. Buy ⁠The Selected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers⁠ or Volume 3 of ⁠The Collected Poems of Robinson Jeffers⁠.

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