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