This is one of those few odd cases where a Jeffers poem is anthologized by a variety of editors, but wholly omitted from Jeffers-exclusive collections (aside from Robert Haas’ out-of-print collection, Rock and Hawk). It is included in Collected Poetry, but that’s hardly a selective work. This case appears even stranger to those of us who really like this poem about an aged mountain matriarch—a splendidly odd portrait.

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Fawn’s Foster Mother is included in the following anthologies:

• Twentieth-Century American Poetry, 2003; eds. Gioia, Mason, & Schoerke
• The Norton Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Poetry, Third Edition, 2003; eds. Ramazani, Ellman, & O’Clair
• The Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry, Second Edition, 1988; eds. Ellman & O’Clair
• The New Oxford Book of American Verse, 1976; ed. Richard Ellman
• The Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry, 1973; eds. Ellman & O’Clair