According to CSULB's English Department website, Dr. Hart "received his BA from Kent State University and his PhD from Stanford University; he teaches 19th- and 20th-century American literature, with a specialization in 20th-century American poetry and poetics. His current research focuses on how poets write about nature from a sacramental or skeptical point of view. How, in other words, poets celebrate value in nature through language, or, conversely, how they see language as constructing, or disrupting, that value. The poets he writes about include Robinson Jeffers, William Carlos Williams, Kenneth Rexroth, William Everson, Lorine Niedecker, Larry Eigner, and Denise Levertov, among others. His other research interests include ecocriticism, postmodernist poetics, and the Beats. He is the editor of Jeffers Studies, which is sponsored by CSULB and the Robinson Jeffers Association, and a co-editor of Literature and the Environment."
10 Favorite Poems
"'Favorite' in that these are poems I return to for wisdom, pleasure, inspiration, and the right words in the right order."
Each highlighted title works as a link to that poem, either in print or in a recording.
John Keats, "To Autumn"
Walt Whitman, "Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking"
Robert Frost, "Directive"
Robinson Jeffers, "Night"
Allen Ginsberg, "Sunflower Sutra"
Emily Dickinson, "My Life Had Stood a Loaded Gun"
William Wordsworth, "Ode" ("Intimations of Immortality")
Langston Hughes, "The Weary Blues"
Robert Duncan, "Often I am Permitted to Return to a Meadow"
William Carlos Williams, "To Elsie"
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