The central character of a poem by this man repeatedly imagines an object being shaken "for a flag on the bare hills" and murmurs"if I could bear you" to signify a sexual fantasy about the title character.
The central character of a poem by this man repeatedly imagines an object being shaken "for a flag on the bare hills" and murmurs"if I could bear you" to signify a sexual fantasy about the title character. This poet assured the reader "you are not Catullus, you know, / to lampoon these crude sketches of Caesar" in one poem, and asserted "meteors are not needed less than mountains" in another. He dubbed his personal philosophy "inhumanism," examples of which include the line "I'd sooner, except the penalties, kill a man than" the title figure of a poem that begins "The broken pillar of the wing jags from the clotted shoulder." This author of "Be Angry At the Sun" and "Shine, Perishing Republic" built a stone dwelling called Tor House in Carmel-by-the-Sea, and wrote a long narrative poem whose title character stomps Johnny to death before being shot by California. For 10 points, name this American poet of "Hurt Hawks" and "Roan Stallion." 
The central character of a poem by this man repeatedly imagines an object being shaken "for a flag on the bare hills" and murmurs"if I could bear you" to signify a sexual fantasy about the title character.
Robinson  Jeffers [or John Robinson  Jeffers]