She tells a story, sprinkled with just the right amount of citation, quotation, and scholarship, while staying true to the nature of the interviews she conducted and the relationship she buily during the research process. Lynch developed a trusting relationship with her interviewee that helped to make the work much fuller than could have been done otherwise. To you, I recommend this good and memorable read.” “In this work her storytelling invites you to encounter not the poetry but the life of Robinson Jeffers as seen by his son, Garth. Her nuanced portraiture captures the delicate tensions of a family where artistic action and creativity, marital passion, a profound love of nature and kindness towards animals created the domestic ground for some of America’s greatest poetry.” “Audry Lynch has been uniquely fortunate to draw upon the recollections of Garth Jeffers. The reader gets to know Jeffers, the sense of place and love of nature reflected in his poems, their relevance to our times, and why Tor House and Hawk Tower exist to this day.” Even if you are not a poetry-buff, Tor House + Hawk Tower are very.

Tor House and Hawk Tower are situated on Carmel Point at 26304 Ocean View Avenue, just to the south of Carmel Village. 58 reviews of Tor-House Foundation Id never heard of this place, but loved it. A rewarding look at a complicated man, seen mostly through the eyes of his son. The house was completed in 1919, and the Tower in 1924. Audry Lynch succeeds brilliantly in revealing to the reader reasons behind Robinson Jeffers’ choice of poetry subject matter, the isolation he craved and found in Carmel, California, and why he claimed that his wife contributed so greatly to his writings.

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