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Joseph Stroud. Letter to Robinson Jeffers. 2024. 11 pages. 335 x 250 mm. Pegasus [Berthold Wolpe] on Cragbourn — rare vintage American paper made circa 1935 on a cylinder-mould machine by Hurlbut Paper Mill (South Lee, MA, est. 1806); a favorite paper of Bruce Rogers and other fine-press printers in the 1930s – with hand-coated inkjet-printed photograph “Hawk Tower, Tor House, 1970” by Jonathan L. Clark. Printed on Vandercook 232P. 30 copies bound by the printer in decorative paper-covered boards with natural linen spine with a cover paper design derived from a photographic image of the stones of Robinson Jeffers’s Hawk Tower. Price: $275. Signed by the author. In his long poem, “Letter to Robinson Jeffers: Big Sur Coast, Winter, 2005”, Joseph Stroud addresses Jeffers’s ghostly presence and finds relevance for our age in the poet’s philosophy, as “the Nightmare of the future as relentless as the surge of the sea is gathering around us”. California poet Joseph Stroud is the author of six books of poetry, including the award-winning “Of This World: New and Selected Poems”. Other honors include a Pushcart Prize, the Witter Bynner Fellowship in Poetry from the Library of Congress, the Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Lannan Lifetime Achievement Award in Literature.