

An image I snapped of the California coastline and its dramatic rock formations. I fell just as hard for that undulant sweep of rocky shoreline. He and his wife Una described the effect of the land they finally claimed as their own as enchanting. I was a newly minted poet, or so I thought I could dare call myself such being inspired as I was by my college professors and the heroes they put on their syllabi. One of the standouts for me during the semester before I headed west was Robinson Jeffers, who had fallen head-over-heels in love with a stretch of the California coastline near the town I would be visiting and its frothy tides. One of the most evocative trips I can remember taking as a young woman was a four-day escapade to Carmel, California.


The Tor House and Hawk Tower, both stone buildings built by the poet Robinson Jeffers.
