Robinson Jeffers
Tamar and Other Poems, 1924
NY: Peter G. Boyle
First edition. One of 500 copies.
1996
Octavo. 127pp. This first appearance of Tamar, marks Jeffers's entrance into the modernist revival of the long-form poem. Here Jeffers recruits the genre to comment on the violence, grief, and...
Octavo. 127pp. This first appearance of Tamar, marks Jeffers's entrance into the modernist revival of the long-form poem. Here Jeffers recruits the genre to comment on the violence, grief, and romance of the American West, with many allusions to the Old Testament Books of Samuel. The result is a take on the Gothic, similar to what William Faulkner later achieved for fiction with Absalom! Absalom! (1936). Bound in buff cloth gilt-stamped at front cover and spine. Mild rubs, slight soiling, else near fine in chemise and slipcase. (Broomfield A3)
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