From 1920 until his death in 1962, consciousness and its effect on
the natural world was Robinson Jeffers's obsession. Understanding
and explaining the biological basis of mind is one of the towering
challenges of modern science to this day, and Jeffers's poetic
experiment is an important contribution to American literary
history no other twentieth-century poet attempted such a thorough
engagement with a crucial scientific problem. Jeffers invented a
sacramental poetics that accommodates a modern scientific account
of consciousness, thereby integrating an essentially religious
sensibility with science in order to discover the sacramentality of
natural process and reveal a divine cosmos.
There is no other study of Jeffers or sacramental nature poetry
like this one. It proposes that Jeffers's sacramentalism emerged
out of his scientifically informed understanding of material
nature. Drawing on ecocriticism, religious studies, and
neuroscience, Inventing the Language to Tell It shows how Jeffers
produced the most compelling sacramental nature poetry of the
twentieth century.
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