History vs. Nature
September 22, 2008 ·
Magazine, John Felstiner, Books and Arts
"I had still the ambition, formed in Sligo in my teens, of living in imitation of Thoreau on Innisfree."
Nature vs. Man
May 28, 2007 ·
Magazine, John Felstiner, Books and Arts
Not Man Apart. For a 1965 Sierra Club photo book, the environmental activist David Brower took this title from Robinson Jeffers (1887-1962). A mind-cleansing rightness strikes home if we hear those three spare words, "Not Man Apart," the way they actually occur. Praising "Organic wholeness, the…
Poet by Nature
November 13, 2006 ·
Magazine, John Felstiner, Books and Arts
"He reminds us that words are alive, and not only alive but still half-wild and imperfectly domesticated."