Online Webinar:
Two Newly Published Robinson Jeffers Titles
Whatever else the new year will bring us, it has brought us two new significant Robinson Jeffers titles:
Deborah Sharp’s edition of Robinson Jeffers Family Travel Diaries: Volume One: British Isles, 1929 (designed and typeset by Norris Pope and published by Tor House Press):
In June 1929, the poet Robinson Jeffers—with his wife Una and their twelve-year-old twin sons Donnan and Garth—sailed to Ireland, the first stop on a seven-month journey through the British Isles. As they traveled, the whole family contributed to a detailed diary, recording their individual responses to the places and people they encountered. The diary includes vivid observations as well as references to Una’s and Robinson’s extensive knowledge of the history, literature, art, music, folklore, and architecture of the places they explored. Readers of Jeffers will find much that adds to their understanding of the poet and his work.
Rob Kafka's transcriptions of Robinson Jeffers' The Point Alma Venus Manuscripts: Preliminary Versions of The Women at Point Sur (Stanford University Press):
The Point Alma Venus manuscripts document Jeffers's four unfinished but substantial preliminary attempts at what became The Women at Point Sur, which he believed was his "most inclusive, and poetically the most intense" narrative poem. In addition to shedding important light on the composition and themes of The Women at Point Sur, they predate other key work from this crucial period and provide new contexts for reading The Tower Beyond Tragedy and Roan Stallion.
Our next RJA-THF Webinar, to be held Thursday January 27, 2022, beginning at 6:30 p.m. (Pacific), will introduce these editions and consider their implications for our understanding of Jeffers and his work.
Aaron Yoshinobu, the new President of the Robinson Jeffers Association, will be our host. Deborah Sharp, retired Tor House Foundation Trustee, Tor House tour docent, and English instructor, be our guide for the Travel Diaries, and Tim Hunt, editor of The Collected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers, will be our guide for Point Alma Venus.
Please mark your calendars and click this link to register and secure your spot:
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_dNkxo5ctTdWWPVUYxCTFVA
The Point Alma Venus Manuscripts will be published January 18 and available through the usual on-line retailers and local book shops. Through January 31, Stanford University Press is offering a 30% discount (use the code “HELLO2022”) for all titles on its site through January 31. The Press has also provided a discount code specifically for Alma Venus (“JEFFERS20”) for the RJA and THF communities for those ordering after January 31 the 30% discount code expires. To order directly from Stanford University Press, please use this URL: https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=18102.
Robinson Jeffers Family Travel Diaries: Volume One will be published January 24 with the hardcover and paperback editions available on that date or soon after through Amazon. They will also be offered with introductory sale prices to members of the Robison Jeffers Tor House Foundation and Robinson Jeffers Association directly from Tor House. Instructions for purchasing from Tor House will soon be added to the Tor House Foundation website.