"In these beautiful poems, reminiscent of the best of Jeffers, Everson, and Snyder, Hunt's unerring ear and eye bring to life a west we hardly knew we missed."

Michael Davidson

This groundbreaking book is relevant and accessible to general readers, and provides scholars an essential critical foundation. There is nothing else like it in Kerouac studies.

Ronna Johnson

“It is an indispensable resource and itself a study of Jeffers. Hunt brings together more poems than Jeffers put in books, presenting them chronologically (order of composition). That sheds light on choices Jeffers made as he developed as a poet."

Virginia Quarterly Review

“Tim Hunt, one of the nation's leading Jeffers scholars, has done a masterful job of sorting and choosing from a huge amount of material.”

San Francisco Chronicle