Introduction: Robinson Jeffers's sacramental poetics
Rock, bark, and blood: sacramental poetics and West Coast nature poetry
The strain in the skull: biopoetics and the biology of consciousness
The whole mind: brains, biology, and bioregion in the middle period
To keep one's own integrity: the inhumanist and the crisis of holism
The wound in the brain: the discoveries of the later poetry
Conclusion: the Jeffers influence and the middle generation.