Jeffers Studies Robert J. Brophy Department of English California State University QQQ Long Beach, CA 90840 Demo XPress Quark QQQ Jeffers Studies VolumeQuark 4 Number 1 Winter 2000 XPress Jointly Sponsored by Occidental College DemoCalifornia State University Long Beach Robinson Jeffers Association Jeffers Studies VolumeQuark 4 Number 1 Winter 2000 CONTENTS News and Notes 1 Publications 3 Robinson Jeffers Association Bulletin 5 QQ Review:American Poetry: The Twentieth Century. Volume One: Henry Adams to Dorothy Parker 7 Robert Zaller Unnoted Collegiate Articles by Robinson Jeffers and Una Kuster 10 RobertXPress Kafka Jeffers, Vonnegut, and Pynchon: Their Philosophies and Fates 17 James Baird Appearing simultaneously with Jeffers Studies 4.1 on the World Wide Web Jeffers Studies Online page: The Poet as Prophet: Some Notes on Robinson Jeffers John Haines Appearing simultaneously with Jeffers Studies 4.2 and 4.3 (combined as Robinson Jeffers: A Bibliography of Criticism, 19121949) on the Jeffers Studies Online page: The End of Prophecy: The Double Axe and the Nuclear Sublime RobertDemo Zaller The End of Prophecy: A Response James Karman QQQ Jeffers Studies (ISSN 1096-5076) is published quarterly by California State University Long Beach, co- sponsoring with Occidental College and the Robinson Jeffers Association. Triquarterly (Winter, Spring, Summer) issues follow a format similar to that of the preceding Robinson Jeffers Newsletter, including news and notes, memoirs, reviews, abstracts, short refereed articles, bibliography, and the Una Jeffers Correspondent series. The final issue each year, a perfect-bound annual, includes up to six longer scholarly articles, each exploring in depth some aspect of Jefferss life, work, or times. After acceptance for publication, theseQuark articles will be available in electronic format through Jeffers Studies Online at <www.jeffers.org>, the Internet complement to the print journal. Editorial Board: Robert Brophy, Senior Editor; Terry Beers, Co-Editor; Robert Kafka, Managing Editor; Peter Quigley, World Wide Web Editor. Copy-editing and typesetting: Greg Williams. Advisory Board: Charles Altieri, Albert Gelpi, Dana Gioia, Robert Hass, Mark Jarman, Brenda Jeffers, Lindsay Jeffers, Thomas Lyon, Czeslaw Milosz, Lawrence Clark Powell, Scott Slovic, Gary Snyder, Diane Wakoski. Subscriptions: For individuals, $15 annually; for institutions, $25. Jeffers Studies is included with Robin- son Jeffers Association membership. Annual dues are currently $25 (Regular), $50 (Sustaining), $100 (Patron), $500 (Lifetime). The RJA is a tax-exempt corporation under Section 501 (c) (3) of the IRS tax code; dues, except for that portion ($15) attributable to the subscription to Jeffers Studies, are tax- deductible. RJA membership dues should be sent to Robert Kafka, RJA Treasurer, at the address given below. Back issues of Jeffers Studies are $5 each for regular issues, $10 each for annual and special issues. Back issues of the Robinson Jeffers Newsletter are $4 each. Issues 179 are $175; issues 80100 are $80. SubscriptionsXPress and back issues: Robert Kafka, UCLA Extension, Room 214, 10995 Le Conte Ave., Los Ange- les, CA 90024, e-mail <[email protected]>. Submissions and editorial communications: Robert Brophy, Department of English, CSULB, Long Beach, CA 90840, e-mail <[email protected]>. RJA mem- bership applications should be sent to Robert Kafka, RJA Treasurer, at the above address. Articles are Copyright © 2000 by their respective authors. All rights reserved. Jeffers Studies is indexed in the MLA International Bibliography. GUIDELINES FOR SUBMISSIONS Shorter manuscripts, suitable for numbers 1, 2, and 3 of each volume, in two double-spaced copies, should typically range up to 4,000 words. Longer essays should be between 5,000 and 9,000 words. Both should be accompanied by a self-addressed stamped postcard for prompt acknowledgment. The authors name should appear on the initial page only. All copies are non-returnable. Citation of Jefferss poetry should be from the Stanford Collected Poetry, abbreviated CP. Until the Collected Letters (Stanford) is available, cita- tion of Robinson and Una Jeffers letters should be from Ann Ridgeways Selected Letters (SL) (Johns Hop- kins) or from the Una Jeffers Correspondent series in issues of the Robinson Jeffers Newsletter (see RJN index, issue 100, Fall 1996). Formatting should follow the MLA Handbook, fourth edition, with paren- theticalDemo citations, endnotes, and works cited. A final revision of an accepted article should be submitted in hard copy and as an IBM-formatted Word file on a 3.5" floppy disk. QQQ wife] and I met the international group beneath News and Notes storm-filled skies and the dominating statue of Giordano Bruno, which looms over the Campo dei Fiori, the site where he was martyred 400 years POET LAUREATE ROBERT HASS ago. By 11:00 the plaza was filled with freethink- READS JEFFERSS POEM VULTURE ers, anticlerical factions, Pantheists, and others. ATQuark WHITE HOUSE The local police were on alert with a police van parked nearby. A theater on the plaza featured the film Giordano Bruno by Mario Moretti. On April 22, 1998, Poet Laureate Robert Hass read Courtney delivered his paper to a small group the Jefferss poem Vulture at a White House poetry next evening. Few of those present had been aware reading as part of the Millennium Lecture Series in of Jeffers. The Jeffers portion of the video Dont the East Room. First Lady Hillary Clinton presided Pave Main Street was also shown in an effort to at the program, which also featured former Poets portray the beauty which inspired the poet. Court- Laureate Robert Pinsky and Rita Dove. ney was asked by one of the organizers of the event to contribute information on Jeffers to an award- winning Pantheist web site that was featured in WORLD PANTHEIST Time magazine in 1999. To view this interesting CONFERENCE, ROME site, and Johns contribution, direct your browser to: <http://www.members.aol.com/Heraklit1/>. Robinson Jeffers was presented in Rome at the MemorialXPress Anniversary Celebration for Pantheist JEFFERSS MEDEA PERFORMED Giordano Bruno by John Courtney, Vice President AT STRATFORD, ONTARIO, of the Robinson Jeffers Tor House Foundation and SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL RJA member, who made a presentation on the life, work, and thought of Robinson Jeffers in Rome, Italy, at the First International Congress of the A production of Jefferss Medea, directed by Peter World Pantheist Movement on February 16, 2000. Hartwell, was staged at the Stratford, Ontario, The Congress commemorated the 400th anniver- Shakespeare Festival as part of the 2000 program. sary of the death of Bruno, a former Dominican Seana McKenna was cast in the title role, with Scott monk, who outwardly professed belief in the theo- Wentworth as Jason, Rita Howell as the Nurse, and ries of Copernicus, and, like Jeffers, had studied Robert Benson as Creon. Lucretius and acknowledged a Pantheist belief in John Coulbourn, writing in the London (On- which his essential religious experience was de- tario) Free Press on June 29, 2000, gave the pro- rived through a personal relationship with the duction four out of five stars, writing: [I]n the end, Earth, nature, and the universe. the show rises or falls on the strength of McKennas John writes, Subsequently Bruno was burned performance, and her work is impressive. Her at the stake as an impenitent heretic by the Medea is regal, passionate, courageous, demented, Catholic Church on February 17, 1600. Jeffers by unbending and even woundedin short, all the comparisonDemo was merely labeled a pagan and had things Medea should be. his books banned by the Church. Carol [Johns News and Notes 1 QQQ TOR HOUSE FOUNDATION FALL FESTIVAL ALA CONFERENCE, CANCUN The Year 2000 Robinson Jeffers Festival began An American Literature Symposium titled Mod- this October with a Jeffers Country Bus Tour on ernist Crossings: Lyric Strategies in Narrative and Friday,Quark October 13, which visited selected sites of Narrative Strategies in Lyric was held at Cancun, Jeffers poems along the Carmel-Big Sur coast, in its December 610, 2000. Papers linking formal stra- final stage traversing the Old Coast Road and hav- tegies to political or ethical consequences were ing as commentators-readers John Courtney, Jean highlighted. Grace, Jeff Norman, and Robert Brophy. Lunch at Big Sur River Inn closed the program. Saturday speakers for the George White Memorial Seminars, ALA ANNUAL CONFERENCE Architecture and a Sense of Place, dedicated to the memory of Lee Jeffers, were Robert Judson Clark, art historian of Princeton University, who American Literature Associations Annual Con- spoke on early Carmel architecture; Bruce Smith of ference will be held May 2427, 2001 at the Hyatt Arts and Crafts Press, Berkeley, who gave an illu- Regency Hotel, Cambridge, Massachusetts, across minating slide presentation on the similarities from Boston. Representatives of the various soci- between Jeffers and architect Charles Greene, who eties that make up ALA will organize much of the late in life moved to the Carmel area and created program. An early draft of the program will appear a lasting stone presence there; Hugh Howard, in mid-February; copies of the printed program authorXPress and preservationist, who described the con- will be mailed in April to all who pre-register (all struction of his own home, and the influences upon program participants must pre-register). E-mail: it; and Pope Coleman, member of Carmels Plan- <[email protected]>.