Robinson Jeffers Tor House and Hawk Tower
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Touchstone
N 36° 32.537 W 121° 55.912
10S E 595606 N 4044628
The Tor House in Carmel, CA is kind of a huge Memorial to the internationally acclaimed poet, Robinson Jeffers. This is where Robinson Jeffers lived and wrote the majority of his work. The house is only open for tours two days a week, but the coordinates should bring you to a small memorial with a statue of a hawk near the entrance.
Waymark Code: WM1HN
Location: California, United States
Date Posted: 09/16/2005
Views: 83
"Stone-cutters fighting time
with marble, you foredefeated
challengers of oblivion...
The poet as well
Builds his monument mockingly;
For man will be blotted out, the blithe earth die, the brave sun
Die blind and blacken to the heart:
Yet stones have stood for a thousand years, and pained thoughts found
The honey of peace in old poems."
Robinson Jeffers (1887-1962) and his
wife Una (1884-1950) came to Carmel in 1914. Over the next decade, they
gathered boulders from the nearby rocky shore and built Tor House and the
adjacent Hawk Tower. It was in Tor House that Jeffers wrote all his major
poetical work.
The
author of more than 15 books, Jeffers was a decidedly Califonia poet, often
using scenes and names of nearby landmarks in his works. He is
considered one of the major American poets of the first half of the 20th
century.
If you plan on taking a tour of the Tor
House and the Hawk Tower, please refer to the following link for times and
pricing: Robinson Jeffers Tor
House Foundation.
The coordinates for this Waymark will
take you to a small bronze statue of a hawk on a pedestal of boulders, honoring
Robinson Jeffers.
