Background
Everson, William Oliver was born on September 10, 1912 in Sacramento. Son of Louis Waldemar and Francelia Marie (Herber) Everson.
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Printed in an edition limited to 200 numbered copies signed by the author. A lovely edition of Everson's poem, designed, hand-set and printed in two colors on hand-made Fabriano paper by Graham Mackintosh. Illustrated with a woodcut of a woman wading in water by Mary Fabilli. 23 pages. brown cloth with title on spine in gold letters on black ground, original plain dust jacket.. 4to..
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The Veritable Years, second volume in William Everson's life's-work trilogy, follows on from the early "pre-Catholic" works of The Residual Years, Poems 1934-1948 published earlier this year by Black Sparrow. This comprehensive scholarly edition gathers all the verse, including previously unpublished pieces, written by Everson during his eighteen years as a Dominican lay brother, Brother Antoninus. Taken together, these poems provide a passionate record of Everson/Antoninus's struggle to maintain strict vows of celibacy. That struggle is fraught with dramatic tension, as the poet strives to establish a fragile equilibrium between opposed psychic polarities of Spirit and Flesh. The strict asceticism of The Crooked Lines of God (1949) eventually yields to the ecstatic eroticism of River-Root (1957); in the aftermath of that watershed work, the poems increasingly reveal reservations and misgivings in the poet-monk's commitment to his religious role. (Three years after writing the 1966 Rose of Solitude, he would return to secular life.) William Everson has been justly called "the most important religious poet of the second half of the century". He is also, as evidenced here, along with Jeffers the greatest of our poets of West Coast nature:
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First edition. Acknowledgment, table of contents, foreword, notes, regional incentive, bibliographical note, index. An in depth discussion of the works of William Everson during the years of 1950 - 1977. 251 pages. cloth, dust jacket. 8vo.
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One of 125 numbered copies in quarter brown leather and marbled paper boards signed by Everson on a special page at the beginning of the book. There were 26 copies of a deluxe edition, signed and lettered by Everson. Designed and printed by Patrick Reagh.
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(William Everson (1912 1994) was many things a conscientio...)
William Everson (1912 1994) was many things a conscientious objector, a fine-press printer, a Dominican monk, and a much-loved teacher and literary personality. Above all else, he was a poet for many readers the celebrator of the spirit and landscape of the Pacific Northwest. His lifework in poetry is clearly divided into three chapters, a fact reflected in the three-volume arrangement of his Collected Poems. The first volume gathers his early work, poems exploring the violence inherent in the natural world and in the heart of man. The second collects the moving lyrics and narrative poems on Christian themes published under his Dominican name, Brother Antoninus. The final volume, comprising work written after his return to secular life, marks the poet's reconciliation with nature and his own place in it. But all of Everson's poetry, wrote Kenneth Rexroth, is a unity: "It is all concerned with the drama of his own self, rising and falling along the sine curve of life, everything full of a terrible beauty and pain. Life isn't like that to some people, and to them these poems will seem too strong a wine. But of course life is like that."
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First edition, this is one of the 250 numbered copies signed by Everson and bound thus. ix , 197, iii pages. quarter cloth with decorated paper-covered boards.. 8vo..
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Printed in an edition limited to 250 numbered copies. Signed by Everson. Printed in Goudy Thirty on hand-made paper from the English Wookey Hole Mill. Titles and section numbers finely printed in tan and brown. A very lovely edition--the Goudy font is a most appropriate choice for the work. Prospectus loosely inserted. unpaginated. quarter leather with decorated paper-covered boards.. tall 4to..
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(William Everson (1912 1994) was many things a conscientio...)
William Everson (1912 1994) was many things a conscientious objector, a fine-press printer, a Dominican monk, and a much-loved teacher and literary personality. Above all else, he was a poet for many readers the celebrator of the spirit and landscape of the Pacific Northwest. His lifework in poetry is clearly divided into three chapters, a fact reflected in the three-volume arrangement of his Collected Poems. The first volume gathers his early work, poems exploring the violence inherent in the natural world and in the heart of man. The second collects the moving lyrics and narrative poems on Christian themes published under his Dominican name, Brother Antoninus. The final volume, comprising work written after his return to secular life, marks the poet's reconciliation with nature and his own place in it. But all of Everson's poetry, wrote Kenneth Rexroth, is a unity: "It is all concerned with the drama of his own self, rising and falling along the sine curve of life, everything full of a terrible beauty and pain. Life isn't like that to some people, and to them these poems will seem too strong a wine. But of course life is like that."
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Excerpt from The Hazards of Holiness: Poems, 1957-1960 His mother's fondness wrought his father's frown. Supplanter from the beginning, struggler in the womb, Heel-holder, the overreaching scion. She egged him on. For her offense she saw him hounded out of home Nor lived to look again, ever, on the longed face. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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(William Everson (1912 1994) was many things a conscientio...)
William Everson (1912 1994) was many things a conscientious objector, a fine-press printer, a Dominican monk, and a much-loved teacher and literary personality. Above all else, he was a poet for many readers the celebrator of the spirit and landscape of the Pacific Northwest. His lifework in poetry is clearly divided into three chapters, a fact reflected in the three-volume arrangement of his Collected Poems. The first volume gathers his early work, poems exploring the violence inherent in the natural world and in the heart of man. The second collects the moving lyrics and narrative poems on Christian themes published under his Dominican name, Brother Antoninus. The final volume, comprising work written after his return to secular life, marks the poet's reconciliation with nature and his own place in it. But all of Everson's poetry, wrote Kenneth Rexroth, is a unity: "It is all concerned with the drama of his own self, rising and falling along the sine curve of life, everything full of a terrible beauty and pain. Life isn't like that to some people, and to them these poems will seem too strong a wine. But of course life is like that."
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(An uninhibited human document, this book reveals the inne...)
An uninhibited human document, this book reveals the inner workings of two very different minds struggling to meet the high standards of authorship they had set for themselves. Each served as a mentor to the other. Everson, known later as Brother Antoninus, a poet of the Beat Generation, comments trenchantly on Powell's novels (not published until the late 1970s) and Powell persuades Everson to reconsider words and images in his poems and give them titles. The letters include many insights on music as the two writers grow and develop emotionally and intellectually. Robinson Jeffers is the leitmotif for the book: Powell had written the first critical study of the poet and Jeffer's poems inspired Everson. Other writers appear-M.F.K. Fisher, Theodore Dreiser, Robert Duncan, Kenneth Rexroth, Henry Miller, and Archibald MacLeish, to name a few. Also sculptors Gordon Newell and Clayton James; painters Morris Graves amd Dillwyn Parrish; publishers James Laughlin and Ward Richie. Everson's draft board sent him to a conscientious objectors camp i Oregon, where he founded The Fine Arts at Waldport. The enforced separation of his internment, 1943-46, led to the dissolution of his marriage. Powell's unprecedented leap from junior librarian at UCLA to university librarian took place during these years, and his progress as a writer of columns, book reviews, and books is revealed.
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(William Everson was born in Sacramento, CA in 1912 to Chr...)
William Everson was born in Sacramento, CA in 1912 to Christian Science parents. During the Depression, he attended Fresno State College, but soon dropped out to devote his life to poetry after discovering the works of Robinson Jeffers. Everson published his first book of verse, We Are the Ravens in 1935. During WW II, he declared himself a conscientious objector and was placed in a series of work camps in the Pacific Northwest, where he first learned handset printing and where he also completed The Residual Years, which brought him national attention. After the war, Everson joined the San Francisco Renaissance movement of poets and anarchists surrounding Kenneth Rexroth. In 1951, he entered the Dominican Order. Donning the traditional Dominican robe and hood, he was a widely respected figure in the Beat literary movement for nearly 2 decades. He took the name of Brother Antoninus, under which he became well known. In 1957, after Kenneth Rexroth's "San Francisco Letter" appeared in the Evergreen Review, Everson was regarded as one of the San Francisco Renaissance poets (the Beats) and he was tagged with the name of "The Beat Friar". In 1969, after marrying his 3rd wife Susanna Rickson, Everson renounced his Dominican calling. Two years later he took a position at UCSC, where he taught "Birth of a Poet" and founded the University's Lime Kiln Press. He also established himself as an important literary theorist with the publication of Archetype West: The Pacific Coast as a Literary Region. Everson published over 50 volumes of poetry as both Everson and Antoninus and was a handpress printer of worldwide distinction. His honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Pulitzer nomination, a National Endowment for the Arts Grant and the PEN Center USA West, Body of Work Award. He was at work on an epoch biographical poem, "Dust Shall Be the Serpent's Food", up until his death in 1994.
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An event of rare literary distinction, this book records the conjunction between two distinguished American poets, illuminating not only their work and their connection but also the deep strain of pantheistic mysticism in the American tradition. In 1934, William Everson came across a volume of Jeffers's poetry. In Everson's word, the power of Jeffers 'broke my own acquired agnosticism and compelled me to think of myself as a manifestly religious man. It is a power I still attest to in writing this study, a power which I continue to think of as an undiluted religious force'. It was after reading Jeffers that Everson's vocation as a poet emerged, and though they never met or corresponded, Everson has remained loyal and dedicated to Jeffers throughout his life. Everson, who published extensively under his religious name Brother Antoninus during his nearly twenty years as a Dominican lay brother, has become one of the most knowledgeable scholars and critics of Jeffers, as well as his one avowed poetic disciple. This book is written as a series of over-lapping and ever-widening meditations on Jeffers's sense of God, nature, the self, and language.
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(Author s Note: The Engendering Flood is the first book ...)
Author s Note: The Engendering Flood is the first book in an autobiographical epic poem entitled Dust Shall Be the Serpent s Food. It consists of four cantos, the first being called 'In Media Res,' so named after the classic formula for the epic as it has come down to us from the Latin and Greek tradition. The words mean simply 'in the midst of things,' but more aptly have come to specify 'the low point in the fortunes of the hero.' For me that point was certainly the funeral of my father at the close of World War II in 1945, and so I have begun it. The epic formula then calls for flashback to delineate how the hero got to that point. Thus Canto II, entitled 'Skald,' after the Scandinavian minstrels or bards of the Viking period, relates the life of my father, an immigrant Norwegian musician. Canto III, 'Hidden Life,' narrates the humble origin of my mother on a Minnesota farm in the last century, how she met my father and how they fell in love. Canto IV, 'The Hollow Years,' tells of the estrangement of the lovers, their eventual reconciliation, marriage, procreation, and arrival in Selma, California, where I grew up. Thus far, my immediate lineal background. Book two will begin my personal odyssey. W.E.
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William Everson (1912 1994) was many things a conscientious objector, a fine-press printer, a Dominican monk, and a much-loved teacher and literary personality. Above all else, he was a poet for many readers the celebrator of the spirit and landscape of the Pacific Northwest. His lifework in poetry is clearly divided into three chapters, a fact reflected in the three-volume arrangement of his Collected Poems. The first volume gathers his early work, poems exploring the violence inherent in the natural world and in the heart of man. The second collects the moving lyrics and narrative poems on Christian themes published under his Dominican name, Brother Antoninus. The final volume, comprising work written after his return to secular life, marks the poet's reconciliation with nature and his own place in it. But all of Everson's poetry, wrote Kenneth Rexroth, is a unity: "It is all concerned with the drama of his own self, rising and falling along the sine curve of life, everything full of a terrible beauty and pain. Life isn't like that to some people, and to them these poems will seem too strong a wine. But of course life is like that."
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(William Everson (1912 - 1994), also known as Brother Anto...)
William Everson (1912 - 1994), also known as Brother Antoninus, was an American poet of the San Francisco Renaissance and was also a literary critic and small press printer.
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(William Everson (1912 1994) was many things a conscientio...)
William Everson (1912 1994) was many things a conscientious objector, a fine-press printer, a Dominican monk, and a much-loved teacher and literary personality. Above all else, he was a poet for many readers the celebrator of the spirit and landscape of the Pacific Northwest. His lifework in poetry is clearly divided into three chapters, a fact reflected in the three-volume arrangement of his Collected Poems. The first volume gathers his early work, poems exploring the violence inherent in the natural world and in the heart of man. The second collects the moving lyrics and narrative poems on Christian themes published under his Dominican name, Brother Antoninus. The final volume, comprising work written after his return to secular life, marks the poet's reconciliation with nature and his own place in it. But all of Everson's poetry, wrote Kenneth Rexroth, is a unity: "It is all concerned with the drama of his own self, rising and falling along the sine curve of life, everything full of a terrible beauty and pain. Life isn't like that to some people, and to them these poems will seem too strong a wine. But of course life is like that."
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Everson, William Oliver was born on September 10, 1912 in Sacramento. Son of Louis Waldemar and Francelia Marie (Herber) Everson.
Student, Fresno State College, 1931, 34-35.
With, Civilian Conservation Corps, 1933-1934; with, Civilian Public Service, 1943-1946; director, Fine Arts Group, Waldport, Oregon, 1944-1946; with, University of California Press, 1947-1949; with, Catholic Worker Movement, 1950-1951; with, Dominican Order, Province of West, 1951-1969; poet-in-residence, Kresge College, University of California, Santa Cruz, 1971-1981; master printer, Lime Kiln Press, University of California, Santa Cruz, 1971-1981.
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(The Veritable Years, second volume in William Everson's l...)
(Excerpt from The Crooked Lines of God: Poems 1949-1954 I...)
(An uninhibited human document, this book reveals the inne...)
(William Everson (1912 - 1994), also known as Brother Anto...)
(William Everson (1912 1994) was many things a conscientio...)
(William Everson (1912 1994) was many things a conscientio...)
(William Everson (1912 1994) was many things a conscientio...)
(William Everson (1912 1994) was many things a conscientio...)
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Married Edwa Poulson, 1938 (divorced 1948). Married Mary Fabilli, 1948 (divorced 1960). Married Susanna Rickson, December 13, 1969.
1 stepson, Jude.