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Unread 05-09-2007, 09:56 AM
Simon Hunt Simon Hunt is offline
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Here's an event that may be of interest to the Californians and the Jeffers-heads on the Sphere (not to mention my own small but rabid fan-army...):

On Saturday, May 26, you can enjoy a moonlight tour of the spectacular, ruggedly beautiful Lighthouse at Point Sur, along with a reading of the poetry of Robinson Jeffers and others. The cost is only $25, which goes to a good cause: the Robinson Jeffers Tor House Foundation.

The evening will go as follows: at 6 p.m., visitors will be divided into four groups, each accompanied by a lighthouse docent and a poet. As the groups tour the lighthouse and grounds, the docent's tour will occasionally be interrrupted for readings by the poet of Jeffers's poems, with a particular emphasis on poems that deal with the landscape of Big Sur. At the lighthouse, the 4 groups will watch the sunset and enjoy refreshments before heading to the "barn" for a reading at which the four poets will read more of Jeffers, as well as a selection of their own work. As the parenthesis above implies, I am one of the four poets. The others are George Lober, Elliot Ruchowitz-Roberts, and Taelen Thomas. The evening will conclude with a moonlight stroll back to the cars.

What a deal, eh? If you want to go (and why wouldn't you?), check www.torhouse.org for the info on how to make a reservation.



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Unread 05-10-2007, 04:29 PM
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I am one of those "Jeffers-heads" you speak of, Simon, and I would love to be there.

Robinson Jeffers, despite the fact that he wrote in FV, is certainly one of my favourite poets of the last century. I love his nature-poems, and his philosophy of "Inhumanism".

He is right - we are too bound-up in our human-centred vision of life, and need to imagine ourselves out of it in order to meditate on the "transhuman magnificence" of the universe.

I am sure those who go will hear poems such as this - read in the environment they were written. Lucky devils!

Best of luck with the event, Simon - keep up the good work.


Carmel Point


The extraordinary patience of things!
This beautiful place defaced with a crop of surburban houses-
How beautiful when we first beheld it,
Unbroken field of poppy and lupin walled with clean cliffs;
No intrusion but two or three horses pasturing,
Or a few milch cows rubbing their flanks on the outcrop rockheads-
Now the spoiler has come: does it care?
Not faintly. It has all time. It knows the people are a tide
That swells and in time will ebb, and all
Their works dissolve. Meanwhile the image of the pristine beauty
Lives in the very grain of the granite,
Safe as the endless ocean that climbs our cliff.-As for us:
We must uncenter our minds from ourselves;
We must unhumanize our views a little, and become confident
As the rock and ocean that we were made from.

Robinson Jeffers


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Unread 05-10-2007, 04:48 PM
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Cheers, Mark. I know you're a Jeffers man, and I'll tour you around his house free if you ever make it up here. I always read "Carmel Point" during my tours at Tor House; CP is the little peninsula where he built the house. For the 26th I'm digging out some Jeffers about Big Sur and some poems I haven't said aloud before.
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Unread 05-11-2007, 05:36 PM
Clay Stockton Clay Stockton is offline
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Simon, I'm going to try to make it down. If you'd like, you could PM me your email address and I'll let you know once I've got solid plans. I'd like to be in your group, if possible.

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Clay
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Unread 05-14-2007, 10:44 AM
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Thanks, Clay. Hope you can make it. PM sent.
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Unread 05-26-2007, 04:24 PM
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...giving this a final, day-of bump just in case anybody's in the vicinity.

wish me luck. it's a grey, jeffersy day, and i've mostly lost my voice...
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