The influential but often overlooked writer celebrated nature from his Californian coastal outpost — and warned of the climate crisis decades before others
You can hear the waves crashing below the stone house and tower that the environmentalist poet Robinson Jeffers built on a promontory in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California. When we visit, “the day is a poem: but too much like one of Jeffers’”, as one of his own poems describes in a metafictional moment. The grey clouds, blustering winds and rain make it easy to see how this location inspired his rugged, elegiac imagery.
Jeffers’ poems celebrate nature and how its significance surpasses humanity’s. “Star-Swirls” outlines the climate crisis decades before it entered mainstream awareness. “He changed as a poet and as a person when he began to look at life geologically,” says Ruchowitz-Roberts, who recites numerous Jeffers poems from memory during our tour. A philosophical rather than a technical poet, Jeffers’ work struck a chord with the public that earned him the cover of Time Magazine in 1932.
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