October 26, 2020

Robinson Jeffers: Six Last Poems

11 minutes

An episode from 10/26/20: Tonight, I read six poems from the Last Poems of Robinson Jeffers (1887-1962):

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'The polar ice-caps are melting, the mountain glaciers'

'As the eye fails through age or disease'

'It nearly cancels my fear of death, my dearest said'

'I am seventy-four years old and suddenly all my strength'

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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