Hurt Hawks Resources

This is the go-to for all things Jeffers.

Tor House looks like Jeffers would if he were a house.

The Academy of American Poets offers a solid overview of the poet's life and work.

So the makers of this won't win any prizes for sound or their photo montage, but it's fun to hear "Hurt Hawks" alongside some of Jeffers' other poems.

You can listen to The Poetry Foundation's recording of Jeffers reading his poem while reading along.

In his introduction, Jeffers explains that there are two hawks—not one.

There's the hawk of a man, standing at Hawk Tower.

Did he have one of those hurt hawks taxidermed?

Here's the poet with his wife Una, and a sassy dog:

The Association has a wealth of digital back issues of Jeffers Studies, featuring academic articles.

Need we say more?

This children's book uses the first 5 lines of this poem as an epigram for Chapter 23, "Kehaar," about a wounded seagull. Sounds about right.

More scoop on our man.

This reverent documentary on Jeffers life showed on KPIX-TV in 1967. It's old school, but it gets the job done.

This is Jeffers' translation of Euripides' classic play. Because why not?