Author: Robinson Jeffers

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• Lindsay Hatton (1)
  • IN: Monterey Bay (2016) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: This coast crying out for tragedy like all beautiful places: and like the passionate spirit of humanity Pain for its bread: God's, many victims', the painful deaths, the horrible transfigurements: I said in my heart, "Better invent than suffer: imagine victims Lest your own flesh be chosen the agonist, or you Martyr some creature to the beauty of the place."
    FROM: Apology for Bad Dreams, (1925), Poem, US
• Ivan Doig (1)
  • IN: The Sea Runners (1982) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The old ocean at the land's foot, the vast Gray extension beyond the long white violence... And the gray air haunted with hawks: This place is the noblest thing I have ever seen.
    FROM: The Place for No Story, (1932), Poem, US
• Peter Brown Hoffmeister (1)
  • IN: Too Shattered For Mending (2017) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: ... but the great redtail Had nothing left but unable misery From the bone too shattered for mending, the wing that trailed under his talons when he moved. We had fed him six weeks, I gave him freedom, He wandered over the foreland hill and returned in the evening, asking for death ...
    FROM: Hurt Hawks, (1928), Poem, US