- Hardcover: 176 pages
- Publisher: Stanford University Press; 1 edition (Jun 1 2002)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0804739420
- ISBN-13: 978-0804739429
- Product Dimensions: 28.9 x 25.8 x 2.5 cm
- Shipping Weight: 1.2 Kg
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #820,944 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"An elegant coda to the remarkable series, with more than 50 stunning photographs."—San Francisco Chronicle
"A master in his field. . . . [Baer's work] has the aura of excellence and his craft is above reproach."—Ansel Adams on Morley Baer
"This book combines poetry by Jeffers with California landscape photographs by Morley Baer. . . . This is a work of unusual sensitivity that blends two media with personal expressions of two artists of unique stature. Highly recommended. General readers; lower-division undergraduates through professionals."—Choice
"This extraordinary edition pairs Jeffers's poetry with fifty-two photographs by the poet's friend and neighbor, renowned photographer Morley Baer. . . . The photos stand on their own great merit as does the poetry. Together they create this sensitive, thundering, yet spiritual work."—The Book Club of California
"Stones of the Sur is the culmination of Baer's last wish for a book project. Karman, his chosen collaborator, has fulfilled that ambition beautifully."—The Bloomsbury Review
Book Description
The precipitous cliffs, rolling headlands, and rocky inlets of the Big Sur coast of California were alive for Robinson Jeffers, and throughout his long career as a poet, he extolled their wild beauty. His vivid descriptions inspired the best work of other artists who lived nearby, including such noted photographers as Edward Weston, Ansel Adams, and their younger contemporary Morley Baer.
Before he died in 1995, Baer was planning a volume that would bring together a group of his landscape photographs of the Big Sur area with a selection of poems that expressed Jeffers's mystical experience of stone. Jeffers believed that stone is alive, perhaps even conscious in some way. Baer wanted to create a visual and literary meditation on the life-experience of stone. James Karman was invited by Baer to serve as his collaborator, and has brought the project to completion—more than 50 of Baer's photographs paired with poems by Jeffers (some complete, others excerpted).
Stones of the Sur is in five parts, each of which takes its title from a poem. Part I, "Tor House," contains photographs and poems about Jeffers's home, ever the locus of his inspiration. Part II, "Continent's End," begins with a panoramic view of the coastline and is followed by visual and textual images that become progressively narrower in scope as Baer and Jeffers focus on the mountains, cliffs, beaches, boulders, rocks, and pebbles of the Big Sur.
The inward progression continues in Part III, "Oh Lovely Rock," where Baer trains his lens on close surfaces—revealing his sensibilities at their most abstract. From the middle of Part III on, the spiral is reversed and the view begins to open. Part IV, "Credo," expands outwardly from the pebbles and rocks of the Big Sur back to the beaches, cliffs, and mountains. Part V, "The Old Stone-Mason," concludes the book with a return to Tor House.
Before he died in 1995, Baer was planning a volume that would bring together a group of his landscape photographs of the Big Sur area with a selection of poems that expressed Jeffers's mystical experience of stone. Jeffers believed that stone is alive, perhaps even conscious in some way. Baer wanted to create a visual and literary meditation on the life-experience of stone. James Karman was invited by Baer to serve as his collaborator, and has brought the project to completion—more than 50 of Baer's photographs paired with poems by Jeffers (some complete, others excerpted).
Stones of the Sur is in five parts, each of which takes its title from a poem. Part I, "Tor House," contains photographs and poems about Jeffers's home, ever the locus of his inspiration. Part II, "Continent's End," begins with a panoramic view of the coastline and is followed by visual and textual images that become progressively narrower in scope as Baer and Jeffers focus on the mountains, cliffs, beaches, boulders, rocks, and pebbles of the Big Sur.
The inward progression continues in Part III, "Oh Lovely Rock," where Baer trains his lens on close surfaces—revealing his sensibilities at their most abstract. From the middle of Part III on, the spiral is reversed and the view begins to open. Part IV, "Credo," expands outwardly from the pebbles and rocks of the Big Sur back to the beaches, cliffs, and mountains. Part V, "The Old Stone-Mason," concludes the book with a return to Tor House.
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This book is the consummate bonding of two of California's great artists. The words of Jeffers and the photographs of Baer blend to form a book of unparralled beauty...this book gives the Big Sur in California a grace and elegance beyond description..Mr. Baer's photographs are infused with a quiet intensity....one can spend hours enjoying his vision...adding the words of Robinson Jeffers is pure brilliance; particularly since these two men were part of what defined the West Coast art movement in the 50's. Strongly recommend this book to anyone who loves the Big Sur, brilliant b&w photography and the poetry and prose of Jeffers.
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Beauty in Prose and Imagery,
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This review is from: Stones of the Sur: Poetry by Robinson Jeffers, Photographs by Morley Baer (Hardcover)
This book is the consummate bonding of two of California's great artists. The words of Jeffers and the photographs of Baer blend to form a book of unparralled beauty...this book gives the Big Sur in California a grace and elegance beyond description..Mr. Baer's photographs are infused with a quiet intensity....one can spend hours enjoying his vision...adding the words of Robinson Jeffers is pure brilliance; particularly since these two men were part of what defined the West Coast art movement in the 50's. Strongly recommend this book to anyone who loves the Big Sur, brilliant b&w photography and the poetry and prose of Jeffers.
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If you're a Robinson Jeffers fan, you have to read this book!,
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I actually have multiple copies of this book, since Robinson Jeffers is my favorite California poet!The photos are awesome, the editing and of course Jeffers' poetry, are all wonderful, and I cannot recommend "Stones of the Sur" too highly. If you have any interest in Robinson Jeffers and his poetry and/or his life, you will thoroughly enjoy this wonderful volume!
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Morley Baer, the consummate West Coast Photographer,
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Morley Baer is up there with Adams, Weston, and Minor White. West Coast photography at its best. Reminds me of a private publication of "Tone Poems," but with a different bent. Jeffers offers his poetry in the book, where with "Tone Poems" a compact disc was played with poetry read for each page. Innovative, but not as satifying as Baer's photography. A must for all libraries.
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