Brain Snacks: Tasty Tidbits of Knowledge
How would you like to live right next door to your wife's ex? When Una (Mrs. Jeffers) met Robinson she was married to a man named Teddie Kuster. She divorced him to marry Jeffers, but Kuster was their next-door neighbor in Carmel and close friend their entire lives. Awkward? (Source.)
What goes up like a hawk, but comes down like a bomb? Robinson Jeffers was on the cover of Time Magazine in 1932. By the forties, his popularity plummeted, mostly due to his objection to the U.S.'s entering World War II. (Source.)
Maybe his most famous poem, "Tamar," is a long narrative piece about incest. Talk about a taboo subject for poetry. (Source.)
Robinson Jeffers was honored on an $.08 stamp in 1973. You can get one for your collection for $.40, which just goes to show how his value has taken a hit.