Two books of poetry

The Beginning and the End and Other Poems ~ by Robinson Jeffers, 1963, poetry, 74 pages

Jeffers is concerned with a search for the key to the agonizing contrast of nature's splendor and the corruption of humans.  He is disappointed (and sometimes enraged) by the fact that humans will do anything, and he is determined to show the magnificence of the world's wild alternatives to corruption, with the rugged Monterey coast in California providing the setting for his vivid descriptions of natural wonders.

The Colossus and Other Poems ~ by Sylvia Plath, 1962, poetry, 96 pages

Plath burst into literature with this startling book of poems.  In such classics as "The Beekeeper's Daughter," "The Disquieting Muses," "I Want, I Want," and "Full Fathom Five," she writes about sows and skeletons, fathers and suicides, about the noisy imperatives of life and the chilly hunger for death.