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# Tim Hunt

Poetry, Textual Theory, and Modern American Literature

## Posts

- [Til Twangdom Come](https://tahunt.com/blog-2/) - Til Twangdom Come
- [Jes Sayun](https://tahunt.com/blog/2017/06/20/jes-sayun/) - When I was a young child, my great grandmother, a woman from West Virginia, was found of adages. Sixty some years later I don't remember, for sure, just which ones, but I'm guessing "A stitch in time saves nine" was one of them. The sense of it is clear: better do that now before it
- [T. Texas Twiddle Considers His Belt Buckle](https://tahunt.com/blog/2017/04/02/t-texas-twiddle-considers-his-buckle/) - In a Time of Uncertainty and Change, T. Texas Twiddle Begins to Perceive Things in a New Light and Inadvertently Affirms, Denies, and Misconstrues Gender Equality: Darlin' Does this buckle Make my belly Look big?
- [Swish swish Ka-Ching!](https://tahunt.com/blog/2017/04/23/swish-swish-ka-ching/) - Swish swish swish, Ka-Ching! Swish swish swish, Ka-Ching! Ah, the sound of money laundering. As the FBI et al follow the trail of the Russian connection, it's worth noting the evidence pointing to money laundering (is Paul Manfort's wallet stuffed with the cleanest dirty money in town? perhaps only his Russian hairdresser knows). So if
- [Steely Dan Henceforth To Be Steely Don](https://tahunt.com/blog/2017/02/08/steely-dan-henceforth-to-be-steely-don/) - SickiLeekz reports (from a source? does that matter?) that President Trump will soon sign an executive decree that all condoms shall be imprinted with his image and that Steely Dan shall henceforth be rebranded Steely Don. The President hopes this will help assuage the disappointment of the women of the country that he is no
- [In Praise of Muckraking](https://tahunt.com/blog/2017/01/10/in-praise-of-muckraking/) - Welcome to 'Til Twangdom Come. This is a trial drive to see if I can find the gears, pop the clutch, and drive this thing (those of you who've only experience automatic transmissions, that last figure ran off the road and is wheel spinning in the ditch). So in that spirit of test driving, I'll

## Pages

- [](https://tahunt.com/) - Tim Hunt is the author of the poetry collections Western Where and Voice to Voice in the Dark, two critical studies of Jack Kerouac, and editor of The Collected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers
- [](https://tahunt.com/2886-2/) - In This America “In This America” appeared in Storyscape 18 (my thanks to Hila Ratzabi for giving it a home). Storyscape places poems and stories in one of three categories: “Truth,” “Untruth,” and “We Don’t Know & They Won’t Tell Us.” “In This America” is, alas, “Truth” to the best of my ability to register
- [Then Back Again to Now (Broadstone Books, 2026)](https://tahunt.com/then-back-again-to-now-broadstone-books-2026/) - Then Back Again to Now is available for ordering from Broadstone Books. Advance Comment: I like the clarity of Tim Hunt’s voice, the overlaying of memory and the present, the seeing and re-seeing, the outward and inward gaze finding the key details that bring a scene and a character to life. These are poems that
- [Poetry](https://tahunt.com/poetry/) - Promotion Kit (download) Interviews & Readings Books Chapbooks Starting Line: Can You Hear Me Now? (the poetics of textuality or the textuality of poetics?) The page (actually the screen you’re engaging as its surrogate) is a curious thing. It marks our separation. You are not here as I write this; I am
- [Triple T Redux (aka T. Texas Twiddle Rides Again)](https://tahunt.com/triple-t-redux-aka-t-texas-twiddle-rides-again/) - First, let me put to rest the rumor that T. Texas Twiddle plays the fiddle. I’m pretty sure he’s a guitar kinda guy (Gibson flat top a la Johnny Cash when acoustic, and certainly a Fender Tele if he happened to wire up for some righteous honky tonkin’), but then I’d bet large that mostly
- [Triple T Redux (the audio)](https://tahunt.com/triple-t-the-audio/) - Welcome to Triple T Redux If you'd like the PDF of Neo-Mimeo Editions (Nuallain House Publishers) chapbook of these poems, here's the link: https://nuallainhousepublishers.com/2025/09/13/triple-t-redux/ The recordings through the links below are offered in the spirit, as the saying goes, that What ya hear is what ya get, though as another saying has it, you can't always believe what
- [Reviews of Voice to Voice in the Dark](https://tahunt.com/reviews-of-voice-to-voice-in-the-dark/) - September 2023 Book Reviews Voice to Voice in the Dark by Tim Hunt Frankfort, Kentucky. Broadstone Books. 2022. 101 pages. The title of Tim Hunt’s fifth full-length collection of poems—Voice to Voice in the Dark—connotes an image of an intimate, past-midnight, station-to-station conversation, like a long-distance call from a lover or a best friend
- [from Country Songs](https://tahunt.com/poetry/from-the-letter-eye/) - "In This America" is the opening sequence to Country Songs, a collection that's out knocking on doors but to date has not been invited in off the porch. ☜Back to Poetry
- [](https://tahunt.com/interviews/) - Interviews: WGLT's Sound Ideas with Laura Kennedy (9/25/18) Interview with Kathleen Kirk (from Wait! I Have a Blog?!) (11/5/2010 & 11/6/2010) Recordings: Broadstone Books Launch Reading Wordstock 2010 WGLT Poetry Radio Podcasts (2004; 2010) The Wordstock reading (recorded by Oregon Poetic Voices) includes poems that had already been published in Fault Lines (such as “Peets”
- [The Tao of Twang (CW Books, 2014)](https://tahunt.com/poetry/the-tao-of-twang/) - Blurbs Sample Poems Reviews Sharon Doubiago's Foreword to The Tao of Twang The earliest poems in The Tao of Twang were written for what I thought of as "The Blue Collar Poetry Tour." It is easy to use the formulaic You might be a Redneck
- [Voice to Voice in the Dark (Broadstone Books, 2022)](https://tahunt.com/voice-to-voice-in-the-dark-2022-broadstone-books/) - Voice to Voice in the Dark is available for ordering from Broadstone Books. In 1918 Van Wycks Brooks suggested that Americans were searching for what he termed “a usable past.” We are now, a century later, searching more, it seems, for “a usable present.” In the 1860 Leaves of Grass Walt Whitman sang “The Song
- [“It is out of fashion to say so”: The Language of Nature and the Rhetoric of Beauty in Robinson Jeffers](https://tahunt.com/robinson-jeffers-modern-poetry/it-is-out-of-fashion-to-say-so-the-language-of-nature-and-the-rhetoric-of-beauty-in-robinson-jeffers/) - [This essay was originally published in the volume Ecocritical Aesthetics: Language, Beauty, and the Environment (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2018), edited by Peter Quigley and Scott Slovic. Permission to reprint, copy, etc. remains with Indiana University Press, which has kindly extended permission to post this piece here. Should you happen to quote from this
- [Thirteen Ways of Talking to a Blackbird](https://tahunt.com/poetry/blackbird/) - These days it's unfashionable for a poet to reveal sources or offer a gloss on intentions, but for the work gathered in this chapbook sources and a kind of intention are more than covertly relevant, so perhaps a comment might be allowed. Across the tracks on the Critical Work side of this site I mention
- [Western Where (Broadstone Books, 2024)](https://tahunt.com/western-where-broadstone-books-2024/) - Western Where is available for ordering from Broadstone Books. Introduction to Western Where Advance Comment: Reading the stark, moody poems of Tim Hunt’s latest collection put me in mind of a Paul Simon, “Counting the cars on the New Jersey Turnpike/They’ve all come to look for America.” Though in Hunt’s version the highways are out
- [Poetry Promotion Kit](https://tahunt.com/poetry/poetry-promotion-kit/) - This link opens a PDF of a Promotional Kit for the poetry (brief bio, CV of poetry related work, Press Releases for the various collections, blurbs, some reviews, and an interview) for the use of those who might be considering writing a review of one of the collections or including me in a reading series:
- [Jeffers & Modern American Poetry](https://tahunt.com/robinson-jeffers/) - The Poetry of Robinson Jeffers: An Introduction (from The Selected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers, Stanford University Press, 2002) Tables of Contents for Robinson Jeffers' Original Collections Jeffers' Poetry: Chronology and Contexts (from Volume Five of The Collected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers, Stanford University Press) In the 1920s and 1930s Robinson Jeffers (1887-1962) was recognized as
- [Robinson Jeffers: The Original Collections](https://tahunt.com/robinson-jeffers-the-original-collections/) - Each of the titles below is a link to the table of contents for one of Robinson Jeffers’ primary original collections, beginning with the Flagons & Apples, a gathering of apprentice work which he paid a Los Angeles bookshop to publish, and concluding with The Beginning and the End, a posthumous compilation of his final
- [Medea (New York: Random House, 1946)](https://tahunt.com/medea-new-york-random-house-1946/) - Medea
- [The Beginning and the End & Other Poems (Ed. Melba Barry Bennett. New York: Random House, 1963)](https://tahunt.com/the-beginning-and-the-end-other-poems-ed-melba-barry-bennett-new-york-random-house-1963/) - SERIES I. The Root of All Things The Great Explosion The Beginning and the End The Great Wound Passenger Pigeons Ode to Hengist and Horsa Star-Swirls Unnatural Powers End of the World SERIES II. Do You Still Make War? Do You Still Make War? The Epic Stars Monument Prophets To Kill in War Is Not
- [The Selected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers (New York: Random House, 1938)](https://tahunt.com/the-selected-poetry-of-robinson-jeffers-new-york-random-house-1938/) - Foreword From Tamar and Other Poems Tamar Divinely Superfluous Beauty The Maid's Thought The Songs of the Dead Men to the Three Dancers To His Father The Truce and the Peace Natural Music Point Joe The Cycle Salmon-Fishing To the House To the Rock That Will Be a Cornerstone of the House To the Stone-Cutters
- [The Double Axe and Other Poems (New York: Random House, 1948)](https://tahunt.com/the-double-axe-and-other-poems-new-york-random-house-1948/) - Preface The Double Axe I: The Love and the Hate II: The Inhumanist Shorter Poems Cassandra Quia Absurdum Advice to Pilgrims Their Beauty Has More Meaning Pearl Harbor Ink-Sack Fourth Act Calm and Full the Ocean The Eye Eagle Valor, Chicken Mind Teheran Historical Choice Invasion So Many Blood-Lakes The Neutrals We Are Those People
- [Hungerfield and Other Poems (New York: Random House, 1954)](https://tahunt.com/hungerfield-and-other-poems-new-york-random-house-1954/) - Hungerfield The Cretan Woman De Rerum Virtute Local Legend Carmel Point Morro Bay Ocean Skunks Fire The Beauty of Things Animals The World's Wonders Time of Disturbance The Old Stonemason To Death The Deer Lay Down Their Bones
- [Be Angry at the Sun and Other Poems (New York: Random House, 1941)](https://tahunt.com/be-angry-at-the-sun-and-other-poems-new-york-random-house-1941/) - Mara The Bowl of Blood That Noble Flower I Shall Laugh Purely Prescription of Painful Ends Faith The Excesses of God The Sirens Birthday My Dear Love The House-Dog's Grave Come, Little Birds Contemplation of the Sword Watch the Lights Fade Nerves The Soul's Desert The Day Is a Poem Great Men Moon and Five
- [Such Counsels You Gave to Me and Other Poems (New York: Random House, 1937)](https://tahunt.com/such-counsels-you-gave-to-me-and-other-poems-new-york-random-house-1937/) - Such Counsels You Gave to Me Steelhead, Wild Pig, The Fungus The Coast-Road Going to Horse Flats The Wind-Struck Music Memoir Give Your Wish Light The Purse-Seine Air-Raid Rehearsals The Great Sunset Blind Horses Thebaid The Answer New Year's Eve Hope Is Not for the Wise Nova All the Little Hoof-Prints Self-Criticism in February October
- [Solstice and Other Poems (New York: Random House, 1935)](https://tahunt.com/solstice-and-other-poems-new-york-random-house-1935/) - At the Birth of an Age The Cruel Falcon Solstice Rock and Hawk Life from the Lifeless Rearmament What Are Cities For? Ave Caesar Shine, Republic The Trap Praise Life Northern Heather Distant Rainfall Red Mountain Gray Weather Love the Wild Swan Sign-Post Where I? Return Flight of Swans
- [Give Your Heart to the Hawks and Other Poems (New York: Random House, 1933)](https://tahunt.com/give-your-heart-to-the-hawks-and-other-poems-new-york-random-house-1933/) - Give Your Heart to the Hawks The Stone Axe A Little Scraping Intellectuals Triad Still the Mind Smiles Crumbs or the Loaf Descent to the Dead: Shane O'Neill's Cairn Ossian's Grave The Low Sky The Broadstone The Giant's Ring In the Hill at New Grange Antrim No Resurrection Delusion of Saints Iona: The Graves of
- [Thurso's Landing and Other Poems (New York: Liveright, 1932)](https://tahunt.com/thursos-landing-and-other-poems-new-york-liveright-1932/) - Thurso's Landing The Place for No Story An Irish Headland Fire on the Hills November Surf Winged Rock The Bed by the Window Edison New Mexican Mountain Second-Best Margrave
- [Descent to the Dead (New York: Random House, 1931)](https://tahunt.com/descent-to-the-dead-new-york-random-house-1931/) - Shane O'Neill's Cairn Ossian's Grave The Low Sky The Broadstone The Giant's Ring In the Hill at Newgrange Antrim No Resurrection Delusion of Saints Iona: The Graves of the Kings Shooting Season Ghosts in England Inscription for a Gravestone Shakespeare's Grave The Dead to Clemenceau: November 1929 Subjected Earth Notes [Note: This original appearance of
- [Dear Judas & Other Poems (New York: Liveright, 1929)](https://tahunt.com/dear-judas-other-poems-new-york-liveright-1929/) - Dear Judas The Loving Shepherdess The Broken Balance Birth-Dues The Humanist's Tragedy Evening Ebb Hands Hooded Night
- [Cawdor and Other Poems (New York: Liveright, 1928)](https://tahunt.com/cawdor-and-other-poems-new-york-liveright-1928/) - Cawdor The Dead Men's Child Fawn's Foster-Mother A Redeemer An Artist The Summit Redwood Ascent to the Sierras Contrast Bixby's Landing Ocean Soliloquy The Bird with the Dark Plumes To a Young Artist Tor House George Sterling's Death Hurt Hawks Meditation on Saviors
- [The Women at Point Sur (New York: Boni & Liveright, 1927)](https://tahunt.com/the-women-at-point-sur-new-york-boni-liveright-1927/) - Prelude The Women at Point Sur
- [Roan Stallion, Tamar and Other Poems (New York: Boni & Liveright, 1925)](https://tahunt.com/roan-stallion-tamar-and-other-poems-new-york-boni-liveright-1925/) - Roan Stallion The Tower Beyond Tragedy Night Birds Fog Boats in a Fog Granite and Cypress Vices Phenomena People and a Heron Haunted Country Autumn Evening Shine, Perishing Republic The Treasure Joy Practical People Woodrow Wilson Science The Torch-Bearers' Race Tamar Gale in April Mal Paso Bridge The Coast-Range Christ Divinely Superfluous Beauty The Maid's
- [Tamar and Other Poems (New York: Peter G. Boyle, Publisher, 1924](https://tahunt.com/tamar-and-other-poems-new-york-peter-g-boyle-publisher-1924/) - Tamar Gale in April Mal Paso Bridge The Coast-Range Christ Divinely Superfluous Beauty The Maid's Thought Fauna The Songs of the Dead Men to the Three Dancers To His Father The Truce and the Peace Natural Music Point Joe Point Pinos and Point Lobos Not Our Good Luck The Cycle Salmon-Fishing To the House To
- [Californians (New York: Macmillan, 1916)](https://tahunt.com/californians/) - Invocation Stephen Brown Emilia The Vardens Maldrove The Three Avilas Ruth Alison Dorothy Atwell The Old Farmer At Lindsay's Cabin The Mill Creek Farm The Belled Doe Descriptive Songs and Others: A Westward Beach Wonder and Joy Eucalyptus Trees The First Grass When I behold the greatest Juan Higera Creek The Return of Venus He
- [Flagons and Apples  (Los Angeles: Grafton Publishing Company, 1912)](https://tahunt.com/flagons-and-apples-los-angeles-grafton-publishing-company-1912/) - Her Praises Something Remembered To Helen About her Hair The Cruelty of Love Nemesis The Quarrel And Afterward Ebb-tide At the Last A Philosophy Last Spring The Longing Penitent On the Cliff Northward-Bound The Lost Knight From Fenestrella's End of Summer At Playa Hermosa Noon To Aileen-of-the-Woods Nyssa To Canidia To Helen, whose Remembrance leaves
- [Introduction to Western Where](https://tahunt.com/introduction-to-western-where/) - In the summer of 2016 I was driving from eastern Washington down to California. My father had been hospitalized following a major heart attack, and the radio was full of presidential campaign rhetoric. How could I not be dismayed by the exploitative cynicism of Make America Great Again? Yet also frustrated by the other campaign’s
- [](https://tahunt.com/work-online/) - Pretakes: Western Where (forthcoming March 2024, Broadstone Books): “In This America” Storyscape (2017) “Older man in pick-up truck, café parking lot (1967)” Escape into Life (2017) “Redneck Homily with Closing Prayer” Misfit Magazine (2021) "The Dark Mirror" Misfit Magazine (2022) "Rodeo Ride" Spank the Carp (2022) (and for a bit of commentary on this one: https://www.spankthecarp.com/mop_hunt72.html
- [CV](https://tahunt.com/about/cv/) - CURRENT PROJECTS Roadside Attractions (poetry collection one-third completed) The Splintered Mirror: Ritual, Narrative, and Modernity in the Poetry of Robinson Jeffers (critical study, two chapters completed). Speaking the Page: The Dialectic of Aural and Visual Textualities in Modern American Poetry (critical study, two chapters completed). Is It Real or Memorex: Toward a Rhetoric of Textual
- [Jeffers' Poetry: Chronology and Contexts](https://tahunt.com/jeffers-poetry-chronology-and-contexts/) - [Please note: this Chronology is not covered by the Creative Commons license for this site. It is copyrighted by Stanford University Press, and that copyright governs its use. I would like to thank the Press for permission to post this discussion here. Citations to this material should be to Volume Five of The Collected Poetry
- [Introduction to The Selected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers](https://tahunt.com/robinson-jeffers-modern-poetry/the-selected-poetry-of-robinson-jeffers/introduction-to-the-selected-poetry-of-robinson-jeffers/) - [Please note: this Introduction is not covered by the Creative Commons license for this site. It is copyrighted by Stanford University Press, and that copyright governs its use. I would like to thank the Press for permission to post the Introduction here.] In 1938 Random House published The Selected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers, a 600-page
- [About Tim](https://tahunt.com/about/) - A fourth generation Californian, Tim Hunt was born in Calistoga and raised primarily in Sebastopol, two small towns north of San Francisco. As a boy he identified strongly with the Lake County region of his father’s family, where his aunt taught him “I Can Tell You Are a Logger ‘Cause You Stir Your Coffee with
- [Ticket Stubs & Liner Notes (Main Street Rag, 2018)](https://tahunt.com/poetry/from-riding-with-wolfman-jack/) - Blurbs Sample Poems Reviews [Ticket Stubs & Liner Notes (winner of the 2018 Main Street Rag Poetry Book Award) gathers poems that focus on American music and musicians, mostly from the 1950s and 1960s. The companion website, partly
- [Store](https://tahunt.com/store/)
- [White Levis](https://tahunt.com/poetry/87-2/) - As printed, White Levis has some production issues that crept in after proofing. A few of the poems found their way into subsequent collections, a few more may still do so. Copies are free for the asking. ☜Back to Poetry
- [The Awkward Marriage: Speaking, Writing, and (Digital) Media](https://tahunt.com/textual-mediation/the-awkward-marriage-speaking-writing-and-digital-media/) - [Each semester Illinois State University’s College of Arts & Sciences sponsors a lecture by a faculty member. The piece below is a lightly edited version of the lecture I gave as part of this series, March 16, 2016. For the most part it survives, I think, its conversion from script to be heard (with
- [Why Did Jeffers Omit “Shine, Perishing Republic” from Tamar and Other Poems and How Might It Matter?](https://tahunt.com/why-did-jeffers-omit-shine-perishing-republic-from-tamar-and-other-poems-and-how-might-it-matter/) - [This article was published in Jeffers Studies, Volume 22 (2022).] The critical reign of the New Critics has come and gone, but a few New Critical biases live on. One is that a poem is so artfully wrought that its meaning is largely independent of context and presentation. The poem on a computer screen and
- [test galleries](https://tahunt.com/test-gallery/) - wordpress gallery Test gallery
- [Turning from the High Lamps to Love the Low Hills:  The Story the Story of Jeffers' "Metempsychosis" Tells](https://tahunt.com/turning-from-the-high-lamps-to-love-the-low-hills-the-story-the-story-of-jeffers-metempsychosis-tells/) - [This article, published in Jeffers Studies, Volume 20 (2020), develops from a conference paper prepared for the 2019 Robinson Jeffers Association Conference: "'Walls on a rock above the sea': Tor House as Place and Figure in the 1919 Poetry of Robinson Jeffers."] We often treat poems as if the words on the page are inevitable
- [Fault Lines (The Backwaters Press, 2009)](https://tahunt.com/poetry/fault-lines/) - Blurbs Sample Poems Reviews In our increasingly pixelated world, nothing rusts. Nothing is lost. Place and time seemingly disappear. But place does not disappear—even as its implications and features continually shift. And passing time becomes history, memory. Place and
- [Redneck Yoga](https://tahunt.com/poetry/88-2/) - When Fault Lines was published, a then-colleague, an award winning younger poet, noted it was clear that I knew nothing about what he termed the "po-biz" and that it was equally clear that I had not been reading the right blogs. Reflecting on my woeful naiveté led to some of the work in Redneck Yoga.
- [Lake County Diamond](https://tahunt.com/poetry/lake-county-diamond/) - This chapbook (long out of print) gathers a dozen poems from the first phase of my writing. Some of these pieces—reworked when I, later, began writing again with a different sense of how and why poems might work—appear in their later guise in Fault Lines. The chapbook's title is not a reference to the Lake
- [](https://tahunt.com/2837-2/) - [In the spring of 1994, I served as the discussion leader for a group of WW II veterans brought together by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the National Council on Aging as part of the “Remembering World War II” project. Over the six weekly meetings what the men talked about and how they
- [](https://tahunt.com/2893-2/) - In This America 1. In this America deer is not game and squirrel is to eat. In this America hunger is never in season or out of. but is. In this place the game warden knows who hunts for game and those who hunt for food. 2. In this America the trophy wife fucks the
- [Voice to Voice in the Dark (sample poems)](https://tahunt.com/voice-to-voice-in-the-dark-sample-poems/) - Vachel Lindsay Walks the Roads of Kansas Offering Poetry for Bread A Photo You Meant to Take (I-55, South of Dwight, IL) A Grammar of Things The Boy, Discovering Leadbelly, Hears Things He Doesn’t Understand (Sebastopol, CA, 1965) The Boy Is Taken to the Soldier's Grave (from Tahoma Literary Review 22) (audio) from The Circle
- [Poem's Poems & Other Poems (CW Books, 2016)](https://tahunt.com/poetry/poems-poems-other-poems/) - Blurbs Sample Poems Reviews The poems in Poem's Poems—both those featuring Poem as their hero[?] and those that don't—tend to cast the figural as literal and the literal as figural. If there is a model for Poem in these
- [Ticket Stubs & Liner Notes (reviews)](https://tahunt.com/ticket-stubs-liner-notes-reviews/) - https://rhinopoetry.org/reviews/ticket-stubs-liner-notes-by-tim-hunt-reviewed-by-dm-oconnor Ticket Stubs & Liner Notes by Tim Hunt Main Street Rag Publishing, 2018. 84 pp. Reviewed by DM O’Connor Even before the advent of the internet, say in the mid-80s, somewhere between Michael Jackson’s Thriller and Madonna’s Like A Virgin, Rock and Roll became simply Rock. Or to be super specific, Synthesized-Pop. Analog
- [](https://tahunt.com/2846-2/) - [This poem is included in the current issue of Prime Number. The title is a clickable link.] A Photo You Meant to Take (I-55, South of Dwight, IL)
- [](https://tahunt.com/2834-2/) - ["A Grammar of Things" appeared originally Museum of Americana 22, along with slightly earlier iterations of "Song of the Open Road" and "The Language of Smoke," which are also included in Voice to Voice in the Dark. The full set can be accessed by clicking on the journal's name.] A Grammar of Things Things survive
- [](https://tahunt.com/2819-2/) - ["The Boy, Discovering Leadbelly" appeared originally in Levitate.] The Boy, Discovering Leadbelly, Hears Things He Doesn’t Understand (Sebastopol, CA, 1965) In the song it is still jump down turn around pick a bale of cotton. And the Rock Island Line is mighty fine as the voice pretends to be a white man—then sings out
- [](https://tahunt.com/2800-2/) - ["Vachel Lindsay Walks the Roads of Kansas" appeared originally in ArLiJo #89. For a recording of the poem, click here.] Vachel Lindsay Walks the Roads of Kansas Offering Poems for Bread Oh, Vachel, you have walked all day— the fields of corn abuzz with cicada dust as the sun walks its different pace, not hand
- [Kerouac & the Beat Generation](https://tahunt.com/jack-kerouac/) - I first read Jack Kerouac the summer of 1971. I was temporarily out of school and looking for a distraction. I picked up Dharma Bums—not because the iconography of the cheap paperback's blatant yellow cover hollered Woodstock and Counter Culture but because I was interested in Gary Snyder's poetry. I turned next to On the
- [T. Texas Drives the Back Roads (aka Burma Shave)](https://tahunt.com/poetry/burma-shave/) - If you happen to drive some of the more rural stretches of highway in the midwest, you may come across a sequence of five or six signs just between the shoulder and the barb wire fencing that keeps the corn in its place—each sign a line of a verse that builds to the last line/sign
- [Ticket Stubs & Liner Notes (sample poems)](https://tahunt.com/ticket-stubs-liner-notes-sample-poems/) - “Three in the Key of Jukebox” Escape into Life (2017) “Jimmy Reed Plays the Fillmore (March 1967)” Escape into Life (2017) “Doc Watson, Bailey Hall, Cornell, 1967,” Museum of Americana (2015) “Drugstore Malteds,” Sequestrum (2015) “Mississippi John Hurt,” Sequestrum (2015) “Bill Monroe Plays the Chicken Festival,” Storyscape (2013)
- [Poems Online (print)](https://tahunt.com/poetry/poetry/) - from Country Songs (as yet unpublished collection) ☜Back to Poetry
- [from Country Songs](https://tahunt.com/poetry/poetry/from-the-language-of-smoke/) - from Country Songs (as yet unpublished collection): “In This America” Storyscape (2017) “Older man in pick-up truck, café parking lot (1967)” Escape into Life (2017) “Estate Sale,” Post Card Poems & Prose Magazine (2016)
- [The Tao of Twang (sample poems)](https://tahunt.com/the-tao-of-twang-sample-poems-2/) - Clicking this link [link!] will mosey you on over to the web page at CW Books with sample poems from the collection: "Another Way," "Hearing is Believing," "Anecdote of the Jar," "Still Life with Ash Tray and Beer Can," and "Class Party." Alas, the samples don't include "Why Redneck Western Poets Write the Way We
- [Ticket Stubs & Liner Notes (blurbs)](https://tahunt.com/ticket-stubs-liner-notes-blurbs/) - If you grew up with the music of the 1950’s and 1960’s, Ticket Stubs and Liner Notes is for you. But even if you’re a grandchild—or great grandchild—of the iconic Chuck Berry, whom Tim Hunt describes as “that master of ironic innocence and innuendo,” then Hunt’s rockin’ collection is for you too. For the poems
- [Poem's Poems & Other Poems (reviews)](https://tahunt.com/poems-poems-other-poems-reviews/) - Review from Amazon 5.0 out of 5 starsA Blue and White Convertible to Take You on a Spin (Jaime Reyes on September 12, 2016) The cover of Tim Hunt’s new book features a quasi–pop art version of a vintage auto that could be a Ford or a Chevy convertible. Its blue and white front end is
- [Poem's Poems & Other Poems (blurbs)](https://tahunt.com/poems-poems-other-poems-blurbs/) - The animating spirit of Hunt’s new collection is Poem, a metapoetic persona whose quest for self-definition yields a series of—you guessed it—poems in which a folksy wisdom is pitted against literary fashion in gesturing toward a “beyond / beyond mere form.” Be’s are bopped, rock is rolled, spurs are jingle-jangle-jingled as Poem cuts the rug
- [Poem's Poems & Other Poems (sample poems)](https://tahunt.com/poetry/poetry/from-poems-poems-other-poems/) - “Dr. Poem & Mr. Hide,” Storyscape (2013) “Poem had always,” Mason’s Road (2012) “Three Adventures of Poem,” Mason’s Road (2010) This link [link!] will flip you over to the web page at CW Books (Poem's publisher) with some sample poems from the collection, including Poem debuting his skinny jeans after shopping the Gap and Poem
- [The Tao of Twang (Reviews)](https://tahunt.com/the-tao-of-twang-reviews/) - Review from Amazon: 5.0 out of 5 stars Hunting (Jaime Reyes on February 4, 2015) Not long ago I raved about Tim Hunt’s poetry book Fault Lines. Hunt connected his cool northern California background with his current southern Illinois prairie state of mind. His new collection, The Tao of Twang, presents an oxymoronic question: how
- [The Tao of Twang (blurbs)](https://tahunt.com/the-tao-of-twang-blurbs/) - With care and honesty Tim Hunt’s The Tao of Twang covers a lot of territory, from raw youth to rolling total old. Bakersfield to Nashville; all the E string pit stops in between and Hunt even supplies some imaginary heavens of those perfect gigs. – Keith Abbott At one point in The Tao of Twang,
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- [home page 4](https://tahunt.com/home-page-4/) - Tim Hunt is the author of Thirteen Ways of Talking to a Blackbird, Fault Lines, Kerouac's Crooked Road and editor of The Collected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers
- [home page 3](https://tahunt.com/home-page-3/) - Tim Hunt is the author of Thirteen Ways of Talking to a Blackbird, Fault Lines, Kerouac's Crooked Road and editor of The Collected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers
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- [home page 1](https://tahunt.com/new-home-page-1/) - Tim Hunt is the author of Thirteen Ways of Talking to a Blackbird, Fault Lines, Kerouac's Crooked Road and editor of The Collected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers
- [Jeffers and "The Palace" of Tradition](https://tahunt.com/robinson-jeffers-modern-poetry/jeffers-and-the-palace-of-tradition/) - [This piece appeared originally in Jeffers Studies (7.2, 2003; pp. 15-23).] In 1935 Random House added Robinson Jeffers’ most popular collection, Roan Stallion, Tamar and Other Poems (the expanded version of Tamar originally published in 1925) to its Modern Library series, which offered general readers inexpensive, widely distributed editions of classics and important contemporary literature.
- [The Textuality of Soulwork: Kerouac's Quest for Spontaneous Prose](https://tahunt.com/kerouacs-crooked-road/textuality-of-soulwork/) - The cover image to the left is clickable and leads to the University of Michigan Press page for Soulwork. I should (and will?) add more to this page. (10/1/18)
- [Voice to Voice in the Dark (forthcoming)](https://tahunt.com/voice-to-voice-in-the-dark-forthcoming/) - The links below lead to some of the poems published in journals that will be collected in Voice to Voice in the Dark, to be published summer 2022 by Broadstone Books. I'll be adding more in the coming days. "A Photo You Meant to Take (I-55 South of Dwight, IL)," Prime Number Magazine, 211. "Disneyland (1962),"
- [Fault Lines (blurbs)](https://tahunt.com/fault-lines-blurbs/) - Tim Hunt is a landscape artist, like his master, Robinson Jeffers. Unlike Jeffers, Hunt knows “the ache of so much space to fill with the human,” as he says in one of his best poems, “Stories.” He has learned a lot from Jeffers, a great poet of resonant inhuman spaces. But the humanity filling Hunt’s
- [Fault Lines (reviews)](https://tahunt.com/fault-lines-reviews/) - Michael Adams' Review of Fault Lines (The Pedestal) Mason Broadwell's Review of Fault Lines (Poemeleon) Justin Hamm's Review of Fault Lines (Amazon) Robert McDowell's Review of Fault Lines (Amazon) James Reiss's Review of Fault Lines (Gently Read Literature) ☜Back to Poetry
- [](https://tahunt.com/2580-2/) - 5.0 out of 5 stars Wisdom Awareness in Poetry (Robert McDowell on September 23, 2010) Tim Hunt's Fault Lines is a book I wanted to publish the last few years I worked at Story Line Press, but I was never able to do so. That's why it's such a thrill to hold a copy from
- [](https://tahunt.com/2574-2/) - 5.0 out of 5 stars I liked this book a lot (Justin Hamm, Editor, The Museum of Americana, on April 19, 2017) Fault Lines is built from poems of memory and nature and the west and the Americana of cars and guitars. Particularly strong in descriptive detail, these are poems that seem to both know
- [Fault Lines (Sample Poems)](https://tahunt.com/fault-lines-sample-poems/) - Print “Canned Tuna,” Glass: A Journal of Poetry (2008) “Car Radio When It Seemed Late at Night (Gunsmoke),” Glass: A Journal of Poetry (2009) “Listening to Art Tatum Play Piano,” Coal Hill Review (2008) Audio “High Desert, Noon, Early Fall,” WGLT Poetry Radio (9/5/04) “Listening to Art Tatum,” WGLT Poetry Radio (9/21/04) “Mackinaw Parade, 2004,”
- [The Tao of Twang (sample poems)](https://tahunt.com/the-tao-of-twang-sample-poems/) - “Dr. Twang once had,” Storyscape (2013) ☜Back to Poetry
- [WGLT Poetry Radio](https://tahunt.com/poetry/wglt-poetry-radio/) - These poems were recorded for Poetry Radio, a series that ran for some years on WGLT, the Public Radio affiliate in Bloomington-Normal, Illinois. My thanks to Lucia Getsi, Bill Morgan, and Kirstin Zona for including these pieces and to Bruce Bergethon for recording and producing the selections. The dates in parentheses are when the poems
- [Problematic Authority: The Beginning and the End as an Edition of Robinson Jeffers’ Last Poems](https://tahunt.com/problematic-authority-the-beginning-and-the-end-as-an-edition-of-robinson-jeffers-last-poems/) - [This article was published in Jeffers Studies, Volume 21 (2021).] For most readers of Robinson Jeffers, The Beginning and the End (1963) has shaped their sense of his work following Hungerfield and Other Poems (1954). Assembled for publication by Jeffers’ biographer Melba Berry Bennett, The Beginning and the End collects lyrics and brief meditations from
- ["tho this is my last tale": When Did Jeffers Write the First Version of  Point Alma Venus?](https://tahunt.com/tho-this-is-my-last-tale-when-did-jeffers-write-the-first-version-of-point-alma-venus/) - [This article was published in Jeffers Studies, Volume 20 (2020).] In Brides of the South Wind (1974), William Everson gathered the published and unpublished poems that he believed charted Robinson Jeffers' evolution from Californians in 1916 to Tamar and Other Poems in 1924. The recovery of additional work from this period has since amplified our
- ["Walls on a rock above the sea": Tor House as Place and Figure in the 1919 Poetry of Robinson Jeffers](https://tahunt.com/robinson-jeffers-modern-poetry/walls-on-a-rock-above-the-sea-tor-house-as-place-and-figure-in-the-1919-poetry-of-robinson-jeffers/) - [This paper would have been delivered at the February 2019 Robinson Jeffers Association Conference had a health blip (subsequently un-blipped) not intervened. The core of the piece was subsequently more fully elaborated in "Turning from the High Lamps to the Love the Low Hills: The Story the Story of Jeffers' 'Metempsychosis' Tells."] Robinson Jeffers, in
- [Double the Axe, Double the Fun: Is There a Final Version of The Double Axe](https://tahunt.com/robinson-jeffers-modern-poetry/robinson-jeffers-the-double-axe-the-censorship-question/) - [Many readers of Jeffers, both academic and general, take it for granted that Random House “suppressed” or censored The Double Axe. James Shebl originally argued this position in 1976 In This Wild Water: The Suppressed Poems of Robinson Jeffers, and William Everson and Bill Hotchkiss shape their 1977 edition of The Double Axe and Other
- [Censorship and Revision: Politics, Publication, and Robinson Jeffers' Changing Sense of The Double Axe](https://tahunt.com/critical-work-2/jeffers-modern-poetry/censorship-and-revision-politics-publication-and-robinson-jeffers-changing-sense-of-the-double-axe/) - [Society for Textual Scholarship conference paper] Saxe Commins, Robinson Jeffers' editor at Random House, first read the manuscript for The Double Axe early October 1947 and found lines such as this one: "The crackpot dreams of Jeanne d'Arc and Hitler; the cripple's vanity of Roosevelt." He was appalled. In a memo to Bennett Cerf, his
- [T. Texas Sets Out to Set the TV Announcer Straight](https://tahunt.com/poetry/t-texas-sets-out-to-set-the-tv-announcer-straight/) - [Occasionally T. Tex knocks one out that no self-respecting editor would rightly (or wrongly) publish. "T. Texas Sets Out to Set the TV Announcer Straight" is one of them. Alas, T. Tex isn't much at writing a song lyric, but I do have to give it to him: those stupid commercials where the lady and
- [The Problematic Nature of Tamar and Other Poems](https://tahunt.com/robinson-jeffers-modern-poetry/the-problematic-nature-of-tamar-and-other-poems/) - [This essay appeared originally in Robinson Jeffers: Centennial Essays, Ed. Robert Zaller. Newark, DE: University of Delaware Press, 1991. 85-106, and is an expanded version of “A Voice in Nature: Jeffers’ Tamar and Other Poems,” which appeared originally in American Literature, 61.2 (1989): 230-44.] The work of Robinson Jeffers presents a curious mixture of conservative
- [The Selected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers](https://tahunt.com/robinson-jeffers-modern-poetry/the-selected-poetry-of-robinson-jeffers/) - In 1938, Random House published The Selected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers, a 600-page deluxe volume that drew from the collections Jeffers had published to that point in his career. For fifty years it was the most comprehensive and, and along with the 1935 Modern Library edition of Roan Stallion, Tamar and Other Poems, the most widely
- [The Women at Point Sur](https://tahunt.com/robinson-jeffers-modern-poetry/the-women-at-point-sur/) - In 1974 the publisher W.W. Norton acquired the rights to the Liveright imprint. I was then in my final year of graduate school and mentioned this to R. H. Elias, the distinguished Dreiser scholar. I didn't realize that he and George Brockway, the President of Norton, were friends from their prep school years. [Sidebar: this
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- [The Sayings & Wisdom of Dr. Twang (aka Dr. Twang’s Little Blue Book), as Gathered from His Guitar Case, Transcribed from Various Bar Napkins and other Ephemera & Arranged & Edited by Professor B. S. Cou de Rouge, PhD, Southeast West State University](https://tahunt.com/poetry/the-sayings-wisdom-of-dr-twang-aka-dr-twangs-little-blue-book-as-gathered-from-his-guitar-case-transcribed-from-various-bar-napkins-and-other-ephemera-arranged-edited-by-professor/) - Never play a guitar More interesting Than you are. * Go easy on the whammy bar, Same with all those pedals. Make your fingers Talk, not the machinery. * Ladies, if you have the choice, Go for the truck: Who needs a back seat When you can have a bed. * Over time,
- [The Muse Learns to Tape](https://tahunt.com/textual-mediation/the-muse-learns-to-tape/) - [This essay was published originally in Reimagining Textuality: Textual Studies in the Late Age of Print, edited by Elizabeth Loizeaux and Neil Fraistat (University of Wisconsin Press, 2002). The University of Wisconsin Press holds the copyright on this piece, and it is posted here with the permission of the press.] A PREFACE OF SORTS:
- [The Voice within the Voice: Hearing Jeffers´ Poetry through the Letters](https://tahunt.com/robinson-jeffers-modern-poetry/voice-within-the-voice/) - [The following paper was prepared for a panel on Robinson Jeffers that David Rothman organized for the West Chester Poetry Conference in June to mark the publication of the first volume of Jim Karman's The Collected Letters of Robinson Jeffers with Selected Letters of Una Jeffers (Stanford University Press). ] Students typicallybelieve that fiction
- [Constructed Witness: The Drama of Presence in Jeffers' Lyric Voice](https://tahunt.com/robinson-jeffers-modern-poetry/constructed-witness-the-drama-of-presence-in-jeffers-lyric-voice/) - [This essay was originally published in the volume The Wild That Attracts Us: New Critical Essays on Robinson Jeffers (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2015), edited by ShaunAnne Tangney. Permission to reprint, copy, etc. remains with the University of New Mexico Press, which has kindly extended permission to post this piece here. Should you
- [Critical Work](https://tahunt.com/critical-work-2/) - My scholarly and critical work has involved three seemingly dissimilar but complementary strands: Jeffers & Modern American Poetry — critical and textual work on the California poet Robinson Jeffers (1887-1962) Kerouac and the Beat Generation — critical work on the novelist Jack Kerouac (1922-1969), best known for his iconic Beat novel On the Road Textual
- [Textual Mediation](https://tahunt.com/textual-mediation-2/) - Jack Goody, an anthropologist, Eric Havelock, a classicist, and Walter Ong, a scholar and theorist of rhetoric, are among the figures who have explored what Goody has taken to calling “the literacy hypothesis.” They argue that the development of writing alters the way we relate to language, how we use it, and how we conceptualize
- [The Thickening Empire: Jeffers' Struggle with History](https://tahunt.com/robinson-jeffers-modern-poetry/the-thickening-empire-jeffers-struggle-with-history/) - [This paper was delivered at the May 1990 American Literature Association conference. The poem "Invasion" is included in Volume Three of The Collected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers. The workings for the poems and for the collections Be Angry at the Sun and The Double Axe are now available in Volume Five of The Collected Poetry.]
- [Taking the Hawk's Place: The Lyric Voice of Narrative in Jeffers' Point Sur](https://tahunt.com/robinson-jeffers-modern-poetry/taking-the-hawks-place-the-lyric-voice-of-narrative-in-jeffers-point-sur/) - [The aside to Jeffers colleague Jim Baird shows that this was written for a Robinson Jeffers Association conference, but I seem to have neglected to enter it on my CV and don't remember the year. The comments on "Doors to Peace" and "Metempsychosis" show that it was drafted before Volume Four of The Collected Poetry of
- [To Date or Not to Date: Jeffers' "Pearl Harbor"](https://tahunt.com/robinson-jeffers-modern-poetry/to-date-or-not-to-date-jeffers-pearl-harbor/) - [This brief note appeared originally in Robinson Jeffers Newsletter, 76 (1989). For a fuller discussion of Jeffers' recasting of The Double Axe as a collection, see "Double the Axe, Double the Fun: Is There a Final Version of Jeffers' The Double Axe" "'Mornings in Hell': Jeffers’ Struggle with Politics in The Double Axe" For a
- [Jeffers' "Roan Stallion" and the Narrative of Nature](https://tahunt.com/robinson-jeffers-modern-poetry/jeffers-roan-stallion-and-the-narrative-of-nature/) - [Originally published in Robinson Jeffers: Dimensions of a Poet, Ed. Robert Brophy. New York: Fordham University Press, 1995. 64-83.] Robinson Jeffers' narrative poems were in large part the basis of his initial success in the mid-1920s. The sweep of their long lines was in striking contrast to the compressed, fragmented surface of much Modernist experiment,
- ["The Great Wound" and the Problem of Reading The Beginning and the End](https://tahunt.com/robinson-jeffers-modern-poetry/the-great-wound-and-the-problem-of-reading-the-beginning-and-the-end/) - [This piece appeared originally in Robinson Jeffers Newsletter #79 (1991): 18-25.] Robinson Jeffers' later manuscripts show that he hoped to publish a final collection from the poems he was writing in the years after Hungerfield (1954), but he died, January 20, 1962, before doing so. In spite of this, a final collection did appear in
- [A Poetics of Witness: Jeffers' "Salmon Fishing" and the Apology in "Apology for Bad Dreams"](https://tahunt.com/robinson-jeffers-modern-poetry/a-poetics-of-witness-jeffers-salmon-fishing-and-the-apology-in-apology-for-bad-dreams/) - [This essay was written for A Festschrift for Robert Brophy, a special triple issue of Jeffers Studies (V10, N2; V11, N1; & V11, N2). The discussion of “Salmon Fishing” included in the piece is adapted from a talk, “Lyric Ritual: Jeffers and the Poetics of Post-Romantic Witness,” presented to the Association of Literary Scholars and
- [Jeffers: Craft & Reputation](https://tahunt.com/robinson-jeffers-modern-poetry/jeffers-craft-reputation/) - The Work of the Edition: Some Possible Lessons and Directions [This piece was originally a talk to the Robinson Jeffers Association at its 2002 meeting, then published in issue 6.4 (Fall 2002) of Jeffers Studies. “‘It is out of fashion to say so’: The Language of Nature and the Rhetoric of Beauty in Robinson Jeffers”
- [Didactic Confession: Where Does Jeffers' "Sign-Post" Point?](https://tahunt.com/robinson-jeffers-modern-poetry/didactic-confession-where-does-jeffers-sign-post-point/) - [This piece appeared originally in The Robinson Jeffers Newsletter 89 (1994)] "Sign-Post" (a sonnet first published in 1935 in Solstice) is the sort of Robinson Jeffers poem his detractors love to hate, and part of the reason is its didacticism: Civilized, crying how to be human again: this will tell you how. Turn outward, love
- [Starting Line (Can You Hear Me Now?)](https://tahunt.com/poetry/poetry-2/) - The page (and this screen you’re looking at here functioning as its surrogate) is an odd thing. It marks our separation (you are not here as I write this; I am not there as you read this). Yet it partly overcomes that separation—I place this whittled stick in the notch of this electronic tree on
- [Jeffers & Modern Poetry](https://tahunt.com/critical-work-2/jeffers-modern-poetry/) - 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
- [Kerouac & the Beat Generation](https://tahunt.com/kerouacs-crooked-road/) - I first read Jack Kerouac the summer of 1971. Temporarily out of school and looking for a distraction, I picked up Dharma Bums—not because the iconography of the blatant yellow of the cheap paperback cover hollered Woodstock and Counter Culture but because I was interested in Gary Snyder's poetry. I turned next to On the
- [Jeffers & Modern Poetry](https://tahunt.com/robinson-jeffers-modern-poetry/) - The summer of 1966 when I first encountered the poetry of Robinson Jeffers (1887-1962), his collections were mostly out of print, he wasn't included in the teaching anthologies, and he had become little more than a footnote in critical and historical discussions of American poetry. T.S. Eliot, then, still dominated the literary histories and the
- [Constructed Sincerity: Voice and Nuance in Jeffers’ Short Poems](https://tahunt.com/robinson-jeffers-modern-poetry/constructed-sincerity-voice-and-nuance-in-jeffers-short-poems/) - [This piece appeared originally in Jeffers Studies (6.1, Winter 2001, pp. 21-29), where it was introduced by this brief comment: The goal of a critical edition is to present a writer’s work in a comprehensive, orderly, and accurate manner. Although this necessarily involves critical judgment and even at times interpretive decisions, the editor has a
- [Contact Tim Hunt](https://tahunt.com/contact/)
- [Sound Opinions with Laura Kennedy (WGLT Interview, 9/25/2018)](https://tahunt.com/wglt-interview/) - [The text below is from the WGLT web site. The first link following the text is the interview as it aired September 25, 2018. The second link is to "The Electric Flag, An American Music Band, Plays The Bitter End (New York City, November 1967)," a poem recorded as part of the interview, not used
- [“Mornings in Hell”: Jeffers’ Struggle with Politics in The Double Axe](https://tahunt.com/robinson-jeffers-modern-poetry/mornings-in-hell-jeffers-struggle-with-politics-and-history-in-the-double-axe/) - [The paper below was drafted for this year's Robinson Jeffers Association annual conference (2/23-2/25, 2018). It relates to a broader discussion I hope to develop in the coming months that would explore how Jeffers both conceals and reveals his personal stake in his material and and how this might problematize (and thereby enrich) the philosophical
- [Showing vs. Telling: Toward a Rhetoric of the Page](https://tahunt.com/textual-mediation/showing-vs-telling-toward-a-rhetoric-of-the-page/) - If we think of the page at all, it’s probably as something necessary to writing but of little interest in itself. While writing, publishing, and reading are, we recognize, socially and culturally mediated, the page seems neutral enough and constant enough across time and genres that it can be ignored. It simply stores language and
- [The Collected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers: Volume One, 1920-1928](https://tahunt.com/robinson-jeffers-modern-poetry/collected-poetry-of-robinson-jeffers-v-1/) - entry in progress (5/25/2017)
- [The Collected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers](https://tahunt.com/critical-work-2/the-collected-poetry-of-robinson-jeffers/) - The story of this project, at least my part in it, begins October 1984 at that year's Tor House Festival in Carmel. I hope, before long, to sketch some of that story and call attention to the roles of Lee Jeffers, George White, Norris Pope, Helen Tartar, and others
- [from Fault Lines](https://tahunt.com/poetry/poetry/from-fault-lines/) - “Car Radio When It Seemed Late at Night (Gunsmoke),” Glass: A Journal of Poetry (2009) “Early Winter (Pacific Northwest),” ISLE (2009) “Canned Tuna,” Glass: A Journal of Poetry (2008) “Listening to Art Tatum Play Piano,” Coal Hill Review (2008) “Coast Scenes, Sonoma County,” ISLE (2003) “High Desert (Three Scenes),” ISLE (2003) “The Language of Light,”
- [from Dr. Twang's Little Blue Book](https://tahunt.com/dr-twangs-little-blue-book/) - These slides are drawn from The Sayings and Wisdom of Dr. Twang, a small book always published with a blue cover (thus, also known as The Little Blue Book among Doc's followers and with apologies to Chairman Mao and his Little Red Book). With thanks to Professor B.S. Cou de Rouge, PhD, Southeast West State
- [The Collected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers: Volume Five, Commentary and Critical Apparatus](https://tahunt.com/robinson-jeffers-modern-poetry/collected-poetry-of-robinson-jeffers-v-5/) - entry in progress (5/25/2017)
- [The Collected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers: Volume Four, Poetry 1903-1920, Prose, and Unpublished Writings](https://tahunt.com/robinson-jeffers-modern-poetry/collected-poetry-of-robinson-jeffers-v-4/) - entry in progress (5/25/2017)
- [The Collected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers: Volume Three, 1939-1962](https://tahunt.com/robinson-jeffers-modern-poetry/collected-poetry-of-robinson-jeffers-v-3/) - entry in progress (5/25/2017)
- [The Collected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers: Volume Two, 1928-1938](https://tahunt.com/robinson-jeffers-modern-poetry/collected-poetry-of-robinson-jeffers-v-2/) - entry in progress (5/25/2017)
- [Kerouac's Crooked Road: Development of a Fiction](https://tahunt.com/kerouacs-crooked-road/kerouacs-crooked-road/) - entry in progress (5/25/2017)
- [Foreword to The Tao of Twang](https://tahunt.com/poetry/the-tao-of-twang/foreword-to-the-tao-of-twang/) - Having won a major poetry prize Tim Hunt quit writing poetry for 20 years; instead he studied, taught and wrote as a scholar of American Literature (Jeffers, Kerouac). Part of it (I came to realize as I puzzled over Robinson Jeffers, his practice and his critical dismissal) had to do with having been taught to
- [Reviews of Lake County Diamond](https://tahunt.com/poetry/reviews-of-lake-county-diamond/) - Similarly, a blurb on Tim Hunt’s book states: “These poems in the big wind.” Lake County Diamond is perhaps the most elegant chapbook I have ever come across. Intertext deserves applause for their care of a small poetic product like this, as as the larger books they produce. Hunt, as a poet, is stunning: Why
- [Roll Over Chuck Berry & Tell Fred Bowers the News](https://tahunt.com/critical-work-2/roll-over-chuck-berry-tell-fred-bowers-the-news/) - [This paper was delivered at the April 1993 Society for Textual Scholarship meeting. Although the examples involve popular music, it was drafted assuming an audience of textual scholars in literature. In the program "Chuck Berry" in the title inadvertently ended up as “Beethoven.” The musicologists who came to the session expecting to hear talks on
- [Poemeleon: A Journal of Poetry, V.1 (winter 2010/11)](https://tahunt.com/poetry/poemeleon-a-journal-of-poetry-v-1-winter-201011/) - from Mason Broadwell, Three Reviews: Svalina, Galloway, and Hunt Fault Lines by Tim Hunt (Omaha, NE: The Backwaters Press, 2009) 99 pages. Paperback: $16.00 Do you remember the narrator in The Big Lebowski? Played by Sam Elliott, I think, with the cowboy hat and huge mustache and looking very out of place in the bowling
- [Interview with Kathleen Kirk](https://tahunt.com/poetry/interview-with-kathleen-kirk/) - from Kathleen Kirk’s Wait! I Have a Blog?! Musings on what we read and why Friday, November 5, 2010 Fault Lines & Risk Taking Day 270 of the "What are you reading, and why?" project, and I told you a while back that I was reading Fault Lines, by Tim Hunt (Backwaters Press). Yesterday I
- [Prolegomenon to a Lack of a Method aka Three Topics in Search of an Explanation](https://tahunt.com/prolegomenon-to-a-lack-of-a-method-aka-three-topics-in-search-of-an-explanation/) - On the surface, the poetry of Robinson Jeffers, the fiction of Jack Kerouac, and textual theory have little to do with each other, and because of this the work gathered here might seem somewhat trifurcated. But part of what has drawn me to Jeffers and Kerouac is that their writings derive from and are driven
- [a-snippets](https://tahunt.com/a-snippets/) - This page stores bits of text for quick copy and paste to different pages ☜Back to Poetry ☜Back to Critical Work
- [The Politics That Aren't in the Poetry of Robinson Jeffers](https://tahunt.com/robinson-jeffers-modern-poetry/the-politics-that-arent-in-the-poetry-of-robinson-jeffers/) - [This paper was prepared for a panel on modern American political poetry at the 2004 AWP Conference, the national meeting for those engaged in creative writing. I would like to thank Alan Soldofsky for inviting me to participate.] Over the years I’ve logged a lot of time with Robinson Jeffers’ work. I’ve read and
- [Textual Mediation](https://tahunt.com/textual-mediation/) - Jack Goody, an anthropologist, Eric Havelock, a classicist, and Walter Ong, a scholar and theorist of rhetoric, are among the figures who have explored what Goody has taken to calling “the literacy hypothesis.” They argue that the development of writing alters the way we relate to language, how we use it, and how we conceptualize
- [The There There and Not There in the Writing of Writing: Textuality and Modern American Poetry](https://tahunt.com/textual-mediation/the-there-thats-not-there/) - In Black Riders: The Visible Language of Modernism (1993) Jerome McGann proposes that “the history of modernist writing could be written as a history of the modernist book.”[1] This claim reflects his sense that the material conditions of writing and publishing—including print itself, the various processes of printing and book making, and the mechanisms for
- [Kerouac and the Subversion of Modern Print Textuality](https://tahunt.com/kerouacs-crooked-road/not-literature-but-definitely-something-living-kerouac-and-the-subversion-of-modern-print-textuality/) - [The remarks below were prepared for the 2010 American Literature Association Convention. As is often the case with conference talks, the analysis is sketched rather than fully developed. ] Much has been made about Jack Kerouac typing On the Road in three weeks as a single 120-foot paragraph. By writing “spontaneously,” so the critical story
- [Twice upon a Road: The Scroll and Viking Versions of On the Road](https://tahunt.com/kerouacs-crooked-road/twice-upon-a-road-the-scroll-and-viking-versions-of-on-the-road/) - [The following essay is the Preface to the Southern Illinois University Press edition of Kerouac's Crooked Road: The Development of a Fiction. It is posted here by permission of the press, which holds the copyright. Any quotations from this essay or citations of it should be to the SIU Press edition of Kerouac's Crooked Road.)
- ["Mere Troubadour Amusement": Jeffers and the Erasure of Modernism](https://tahunt.com/robinson-jeffers-modern-poetry/robinson-jeffers-modernism/) - [This piece, which complements “Under Wordsworthian Auspices,” was presented as part of the American Literature Association Symposium on American Poetry in November 1992.] Jeffers' rejection of Modernism is well known, and various features of his work (such as his emphasis on narrative) confirm that he chose not to be a "modern"—at least in the
- ["Wordsworthian Auspices": Jeffers and the Reinvention of the Narrative Poem](https://tahunt.com/robinson-jeffers-modern-poetry/robinson-jeffers-wordsworth-narrative/) - [This paper was presented as part of a Robinson Jeffers panel at the 1994 American Literature Association Conference.] At a time when his contemporaries were already evolving the various experiments we call Modernism, Robinson Jeffers had already decided, instead, to concentrate on writing narrative poems. He'd taken a look at Imagism (in 1914) and
- [Lyric Ritual: Jeffers and the Poetics of Post-Romantic Witness](https://tahunt.com/robinson-jeffers-modern-poetry/robinson-jeffers-salmon-fishing/) - [This talk was presented at the 2002 at the Association of Literary Scholars and Critics Conference in 2002. The transcriptions of different stages of the composition of "Salmon Fishing" found at the bottom of this posting are drawn from Volume Five of The Collected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers and were circulated as a hand out.
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