The book is appropriately cautious in pointing out ambiguities and potential dangers, and it also offers the reader a good sample of Jeffer's poetry. Jeffers's rewriting of Greek tragedies may be of special interest here. CHOICE Lucid and reader-friendly yet imbued with philosophical gravitas, Matthew Calarco has written the perfect accompaniment to a growing twenty-first-century awareness of the poetry of Robinson Jeffers. Calarco shows that at the compassionate heart of Jefferss radical inhumanism is a bold demand, not just to understand the inhuman, but to learn to love it. Jeff Wallace, Professor Emeritus, Cardiff Metropolitan University, and author of Abstraction in Modernism and Modernity: Human and Inhuman (2023) Matthew Calarcos How Not to Be Human is a timely conversation about what matters mostthe individuals relationship to society and humans relationship to the more-thanhuman cosmos. Calarco invigorates Robinson Jefferss work with a philosophical vitality for our times. Dr. Ron Broglio, Arizona State University Calarcos book is exciting, intriguing, and invigorating. The structuring of the book through the five major thematic linesevil/theodicy, saviors, cosmos, humans, and valuesworked really well and is a blessing and a gift to the reader. Jessica Pierce, Faculty Affiliate with the Center for Bioethics and Humanities, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
