My scholarly and critical work has involved three seemingly dissimilar but complementary strands, reflected in the three columns of links below. The first link in each column leads to an introductory sketch of my work under that heading; the other links lead to various conference papers, articles and essays (additional pieces will be posted in the coming weeks). For a brief consideration of how on the interrelation of these three strands of investigation, please see:
“Prolegomenon to a Lack of of a Method aka Three Topics in Search of an Explanation”
Jeffers & Modern Poetry
Overview
Books:
- The Selected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers (2001)
- The Collected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers (five volumes, 1988-2001)
- The Women at Point Sur by Robinson Jeffers (1977)
Articles, Essays & Papers:
- “‘Walls on a rock above the sea’: Tor House as Place and Figure in the 1919 Poetry of Robinson Jeffers”
- “Mornings in Hell”: Jeffers’ Struggle with Politics in The Double Axe
- Jeffers: Craft & Reputation
- “Hurt Hawks”
- “Salmon Fishing”
- Aesthetics & Politics in Jeffers’ WW II Poetry
- The Double Axe & the Censorship Question
- Jeffers, Wordsworth & Narrative
- Jeffers and Modernism
Kerouac & the Beat Generation
Overview
Books:
- The Textuality of Soulwork: Jack Kerouac’s Quest for Spontaneous Prose (2014)
- Kerouac’s Crooked Road: Development of a Fiction (1981, 1996, 2010)
Articles, Essays & Papers: