![]() In 1973 Jack Reilly managed the Beach Boys. I do not say that he was entirely right, but his intense devotion to liberty and peace should strike a note with people today, I mean, with the sane remnant. Even in this poem, he was almost overcome with his bitterness. After the War, he was almost mad in his rage against bloodthirsty dictators like Hitler and FDR and forfeited a great deal of his popularity. The Blood Sire was written, I believe, fairly late, before entered into WW II. Jeffers’ rage against war and empire can inspire some readers to a higher appreciation of human life. They give us glimpses into truths and beauties we might be too dull to grasp by observing the world around us, but they are never whole truths or perfect beauties. They are producing works of art and craft that are what they are and can only be harmed–or rather readers can only harm themselves–by reducing them to summaries. Poets are not philosophers and even less are they academic scholars, measuring, trimming, cutting back their opinion. They are all bound on the wheel, these people, those warriors, Like the historical republics corruption and empire He hated war and even more hated the consolidation of power that Americans learned to accept in the first decades of the 20th century. ![]() Jeffers was among the best American poets of the last century and perhaps the best who wrote frequently on political themes–though he wrote perhaps as often about landscape and hawks.
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