Inventing the Language to Tell It: Robinson Jeffers and the Biology of ConsciousnessFrom 1920 until his death in 1962, consciousness and its effect on the natural world was Robinson Jeffers's obsession. Understanding and explaining the biological basis of mind is one of the towering challenges of modern science to this day, and Jeffers's poetic experiment is an important contribution to American literary history no other twentieth century poet attempted such a thorough engagement with a crucial scientific problem. Jeffers invented a