One poem by this author says to the reader: "You are not Catullus, you know, / To lampoon these crude sketches of Caesar".
his poet declared "We must uncenter our minds from ourselves" in a poem that asks "Now the spoiler has come; does it care?" and then replies "Not faintly". One poem by this author says to the reader: "You are not Catullus, you know, / To lampoon these crude sketches of Caesar". In a poem by him, a woman must ford a flooding river on horseback to provide Christmas presents for her daughter Christine, because her husband has forgotten to buy them. He notes that "the flower fades to make fruit, the fruit rots to make earth" in a poem that describes America "heavily thickening to (*) empire / And protest". One poem by this author of "Carmel Point" and "Be Angry at the Sun" describes an animal whose "broken pillar of the wing jags from the clotted shoulder". For 10 points, "Shine, Perishing Republic" is by what Californian environmentalist poet of works like "Roan Stallion" and "Hurt Hawks"?
his poet declared "We must uncenter our minds from ourselves" in a poem that asks "Now the spoiler has come; does it care?"
Robinson Jeffers