Jeffers apprenticed with a stonemason to learn this skill and went on to build Hawk Tower out of the same Santa Lucia granite completely by himself. At the time Jeffers built Tor House, his residence, the land was just that, windswept and ruggedly sparse, much like the English landscape that inspired this edifice. The word tor is Celtic for craggy outcropping.
He built it where land meets sea like the “prow and plunging cutwater” of a ship and designed this home like an English Tudor barn, small and low to the ground. When you consider that every granite boulder for both was moved there by Jeffers from Carmel’s nearby rocky shore, it is quite a structural and artistic masterpiece. The handcrafted stone cottage and tower, constructed in the 1920s, are as much works of art as the iconic poems he composed. That motivation opened the world of one of our best American poets to us and we’re still talking about it. We wanted to be able to say yes when visitors asked us, “Hey have you gone to … fill in the blank” … about local landmarks and historic sites. We had made a New Year’s resolution to see and do things in our hometown area. I took a tour of Tor House and Hawk Tower in Carmel, CA, once home to the American poet Robinson Jeffers, not too long ago with my guy.
Robinson Jeffers, To the Rock that Will be a Cornerstone The wings of the future, for I have them. “Lend me the stone strength of the past and I will lend you
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