Inventing the language to tell it [electronic resource] : Robinson Jeffers and the biology of consciousness / George Hart.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Robinson Jeffers's sacramental poetics -- Rock, bark, and blood: sacramental poetics and West Coast nature poetry -- The strain in the skull: biopoetics and the biology of consciousness -- The whole mind: brains, biology, and bioregion in the middle period -- To keep one's own integrity: the inhumanist and the crisis of holism -- The wound in the brain: the discoveries of the later poetry -- Conclusion: the Jeffers influence and the middle generation.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.