went to the jeffers shrine this summer (also went to hearst castle)
can't see one without the other
here's Jeffers' "Science" -- his wife idolized Yeats, wanted him to be
Yeats --
Man, introverted man, having crossed
In passage and but a little with the nature of things this latter
century
Has begot giants; but being taken up
Like a maniac with self-love and inward conflicts cannot manage his
hybrids.
Being used to deal with edgeless dreams,
Now he's bred knives on nature turns them also inward: they have
thirsty points though.
His mind forebodes his own distruction;
Actaeon who saw the goddess naked among the leaves and his hounds tore
him.
A little knowledge, a pebble from the shingle,
A drop from the oceans: who would have dreamed this infinitely little
too much?
Rgds,
Catherine Daly
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P.S. Library of America poetry anthology tables of contents are on the
site, they are still looking for teaching essays using their books, I
think, at Teachers & Writers; how does one get this "Chaos" anthology?
I've been the first person checking out volumes and volumes of
Australian and British contemporary poetry at UCLA -- the student
library workers dread my visit to the check out desk --
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