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Axberger, Gunnar. “Arson and Fiction: A Cross-Disciplinary Study.” Psychiatry: Journal for the Study of Interpersonal Processes 36.3 (August 1973): 244-65; abstract,  JS 3.2 (Spring 1999): 8.

Beers, Terry. “Walter Van Tilburg Clark’s ‘Strange Hunting.’” Jeffers Studies Online 3.3 (Summer 1999) <www.jeffers.org>; printed, JS 3.4 (Fall 1999): 24-28.

_____.  “A Note on the Text of  ‘Strange Hunting.’” Jeffers Studies Online 3.3 (Summer 1999) <www.jeffers.org>; printed, JS 3.4 (Fall 1999): 40.

Brophy, Robert.  “Clark’s ‘Strange Hunting’: The Ritual.” Jeffers Studies Online 3.3 (Summer 1999) <www.jeffers.org>; printed, JS 3.4 (Fall 1999): 41-43.

-----.  “Continent’s End: Landscape as Court of Judgment in Robinson Jeffers”; abstract of  1999 WLA conference paper, JS 3.2 (Spring 1999): 18-19.

-----.“A Frost Poem on Jeffers.” JS 3.1 (Winter 1999): 14-15.

-----. “In Memoriam: Emily Bednar, Gordon Newell, William H. Nolte, Lee Jeffers.” JS 3.1 (Winter 1999): 4-6.

-----. “Robinson Jeffers.” Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 212: Twentieth – Century American Western Writers, Second Series. Detroit: Gale Group, 1999, 143-52.

-----. “William Everson.” Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 212: Twentieth-Century American Western Writers, Second Series.  Detroit: Gale Group, 1999,  53-59.   [Jeffers discipleship, publications, and printings]

Case, Eric William. “A Production and Production Book of Euripides’ ‘Medea’ Freely Adapted by Robinson Jeffers.” Baylor University thesis for Masters of Fine Arts, 1998; abstract, JS 3.2 (Spring 1999): 8.

Clark, Walter Van Tilburg. “Strange Hunting.” Jeffers Studies Online 3.3 (Summer 1999) <www. jeffers, org>; printed, JS 3.4 (Fall 1999): 29-39.

Fitzpatrick, Elayne. “The Raconteur and the Poet: Henry Miller and Jeffers.” JS 3.1 (Winter 1999): 16-20.

Glaser, Kirk. “From the Range of Light to Continent’s End: Mystical Naturalism and Revisionary Romantics in John Muir and Robinson Jeffers”; abstract of 1999 WLA Conference paper, JS 3.2 (Spring 1999): 19-20.

Harrison, Paul. The Elements of Pantheism: Understanding the Divinity of Nature and the Universe.  Boston: Element Books, 1999; review, JS 2.3 (Summer 1998): 6-7. [Chapter 2 deals with Jeffers]

Hart, George. “The Poetics of PostModernist Nature Poetry.” Stanford University dissertation, 1997; abstract, JS 3.2 (Spring 1999): 9.

Hogan, Charles.  “Jeffers as Radical.” JS 3.1 (Winter 1999): 12-13.

Horstmann, Ulrich. Jeffers-Meditationen oder Die Poesie als Abwendungskunst [Meditations on Jeffers or  Poetry as the Art of Obviation]. Announced for 1999.

Jarman, Mark.  “Slip, Shift, & Speed up: The Influence of Robinson Jeffers’s Narrative Syntax.” Jeffers Studies Online 3.2 (Spring 1999) <www.jeffers.org>; printed, JS 3.4  (Fall 1999): 10-23

Johnson, Scott. “Distance and Fusion in Robinson Jeffers’s ‘The Purse-Seine’ and other poems.” Contemporary Family Therapy: An International Journal 2 (14 April 1992): 171-78; abstract, JS 3.2 (Spring 1999): 9-10.

-----. “Systemic Concepts in Literature and Art.” Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University dissertation, 1991.  [Luigi Pirandello’s “Six Characters in Search of an Author,”  FranzKafka’s  “Metamorphosis,” and Robinson Jeffers, “The Purse-Seine,” and the Roman sculpture Laocoon”]  -- abstract. JS 3.2 (Spring 1999): 10.

Joyner, Emelyn G. “Medea for Soprano and Chamber Orchestra” [original composition] Memphis State University DMA, 1989; abstract, JS 3.2 (Spring 1999): 10-11.

Lagayette, Pierre. “Robinson Jeffers’s California Landscape and the Rhetoric of Displacement.”   Jeffers Studies Online 3.1 (Winter 1999) <www.jeffers.org>; abstract of 1999 WLA conference paper, JS 3.2 (Spring 1999): 20-21; printed JS 3.4 (Fall 1999): 2-9

Lavonis, William J. “The Songs of Richard Faith.” University of Cincinnati DMA, 1991; abstract, JS 3.2 (Winter 1999): 11.  [Faith’s song compositions of Jeffers lyrics, among others]

Mackin, Kathleen. “Frederic Mortimer Clapp’s ‘Coast Range Figures in a Dance of Death’ : Evolution of a Poetic Tribute.” Jeffers Studies Online 3.4 (Fall 1999) <www.jeffers.org>; printed, JS 3.4 (Fall 1999): 44-54.

Malnar, Alan J. “The Poet of Hawk Tower.” Magazine: American Falconry (December 1999): 36-41.

Moore, Brian Lee. “Ecocentric Personification in American Nature Writing” [John Burroughs Edward Abbey, George Sessions, A.G. Tansley]. Texas Christian University dissertation, 1996; abstract, JS 3.2 (Spring 1999): 11-12.

Morris, David Copland.  “‘The Coast Opposite Humanity’: Competing Visions of Cosmos, Self and History in Rich, Milosz, and Jeffers”; abstract of 1999 WLA conference paper, JS 3.2 (Spring 1999): 21-11.

Nadel, Barbara S. “Robinson Jeffers’ ‘Cawdor’: The Emergence of Man’s Tragic Beauty.” Journal of the American Academy of Religion 45.1 (March 1977): 227-275; abstract, JS 3.2 (Spring 1999): 12-13.

Owings, Margaret. “Dylan Thomas Meets Jeffers.” JS 3.1 (Winter 1999): 8-9.

-----. “A Jeffers Park Proposal.” JS 3.1 (Winter 1999): 9-10.

Quigley, Peter. “Landscape and Power: Jeffers, Empire, and the American Century”; abstract of 1999 WLA Conference paper. JS 3.2 (Spring 1999): 22-23.

Ross, Robert L.  “[John] Robinson Jeffers.” Encyclopedia of American Literature.  New York: Continuum, 1999, 585-586.

Rothman, David J.  “Jeffers Inhumanist Poetics and the Vision of Nature in American Art”; abstract of  1999 WLA Conference paper, JS 3.2 (Spring 1999): 23.

-----. “’Shine, Perishing Republic’: Criticism.” Poetry for Students. Vol. 4. Detroit: Gale Research, 1999, 169-173.

Schmidt, Michael. Lives of the Poets. New York: Knopf, 1999. [RJ covered in 702-705 and passim; Schmidt sees RJ as a “closing down” of Whitman’s line.]

Smedshammer, Michael Oren. “Modern Writers in New Mexico: Charles Lummis, Oliver La Farge, D.H. Lawrence, Willa Cather, and the Quest for Purpose and Place in the Southwest.” University of New Mexico dissertation, 1998; abstract, JS 3.2 (Spring 1999): 13-14.

Strauss, Botho. Fragmente der Undeutlichkeit. Frankfurt: Verlag der Autoren, 1999.

Tangney, ShaunAnne. “Inhumanism or the Cultural Logic of California”; abstract of 1999 WLA conference paper,  JS 3.2 (1999): 23-24.

Waldron, Robert. Milosz, Jeffers, and Merton: Poets of Attention.” Merton Journal  (16 June 1999): 10, 43.

Wernick, Robert. “Big Sur: Life on the Edge.” Smithsonian 30.8 (November 1999): 98-111. [Big Sur flora & fauna, climate & history, landscape & geology, roads & mudslides, Ohlone natives & homesteaders, miners & loggers, beats & hippies, novelists & poets — reflecting largely on Jeffers and Henry Miller]

Zaller, Robert. “Heavenly Meditations.” Jeffers Studies Online 3.4 (Fall 1999) <www. jeffers, org>; printed, JS 3.4 (Fall 1999): 55-72.

Zentius, Michael Albert. “Learning to Climb” [Original poem reflecting Jeffers]. 36 pages. San Jose State University Masters Project, 1998; abstract, JS 3.2 (Spring 1999): 14.

Zimmerman, Lee. “An Eye for an I: Emerson and Some “True” Poems of Robinson Jeffers, William Everson, Robert Penn Warren, and Adrienne Rich.” Contemporary Literature 33.4 (Winter 1992): 645-665; abstract,  JS 3.2 (Spring 1999): 14.