Roan Stallion, Tamar And Other Poems by Robinson Jeffers

A collection of poems that juxtaposes brutal human drama with austere natural landscapes, exploring primal passions, violence, and moral collapse against the rugged California coast; extended narrative pieces dramatize tragic, almost mythic characters whose destructive impulses shatter families and communities, while shorter lyrics offer stark, elemental meditations on mortality, solitude, and the indifferent power of the sea and earth—all rendered in muscular, imagistic language steeped in Biblical and classical echoes and a skeptical, unsentimental view of modern civilization.