William Everson (1912–1994)
Author of The Residual Years: Poems, 1934-1948
About the Author
Disambiguation Notice:
Not the same person as William K. Everson, a professor and expert on American film industry.
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Works by William Everson
The achievement of Brother Antoninus; a comprehensive selection of his poems with a critical introduction (1967) 10 copies, 1 review
Prologue: At The Edge 3 copies
In Media Res, Canto One of an Autobiographical Epic: Dust Shall be the Serpent's Food (1984) 3 copies
William Everson, on writing the Waterbirds and other presentations : collected forewords and afterwords, 1935-1981 (1983) 3 copies
War elegies, 3 copies
Eastward the Armies 2 copies
Ravaged with joy : a record of the poetry reading at the University of California, Davis, May 16, 1975 (1998) 2 copies
The Poet is Dead 1 copy
A Collection of Books and Manuscripts With A Foreword By Ralph Sipper and Preface By William Everson (1987) 1 copy
Poems mcmxlii 1 copy
The Vision of Felicity 1 copy
Night Scene 1 copy
The Fountain of Pain 1 copy
Tendril in the Mesh 1 copy
Out of the West 1 copy
A Man Who Prints 1 copy
Cutting the Firebreak 1 copy
Blackbird Sundown 1 copy
Cougar 1 copy
Sixty Five 1 copy
The year's declension 1 copy
A Canticle to the Waterbirds 1 copy
Associated Works
American Poetry: The Twentieth Century, Volume Two: E. E. Cummings to May Swenson (2000) — Contributor — 442 copies, 1 review
War No More: Three Centuries of American Antiwar and Peace Writing (2016) — Contributor — 108 copies, 2 reviews
Possibilities of Poetry: An Anthology of American Contemporaries (1970) — Contributor — 17 copies, 1 review
Peace or perish : a crisis anthology — Contributor — 4 copies
San Francisco poets [sound recording] — Contributor — 1 copy
Tagged
Common Knowledge
- Legal name
- Everson, William Oliver
- Other names
- Antoninus, Brother
- Birthdate
- 1912-09-10
- Date of death
- 1994-06-03
- Gender
- male
- Education
- California State University, Fresno
- Occupations
- monk
poet - Awards and honors
- Shelley Memorial Award (1977/1978)
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- Sacramento, California, USA
- Places of residence
- Sacramento, California, USA
Santa Cruz, California, USA
Waldport, Oregon, USA - Place of death
- Santa Cruz, California, USA
- Disambiguation notice
- Not the same person as William K. Everson, a professor and expert on American film industry.
- Associated Place (for map)
- California, USA
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Reviews
California is burning!" The searing drought of 1976-77 is the backdrop to this poem cycle. Famine marked on a calendar of feasts humbles human, plant, and beast between twin tensions (loss and menace), twin attractions (desire and death). In an "invasion of awe" before the inexorable "vulturine horde," Everson witnesses a wildfire of tooth, claw, and "accidental" holocaust. The graceful, the innocent, the vicious, or the strong---All are prey: "We think of the snake.../ lurking, the show more vibration of evil, / Coiling." Which is mask? Which is real? The evil coiled and ready? Or the "flush and shimmering splendor of life?" Everson's lyrics envision the contradictions, losing none of the beauty, dread, or demonic power and vengeance. Everson is also known as Brother Antonius. show less
Intersting for William Everson's life --conscientious objector in WWI, laborer, in Catholic Worker movement, became monk. Poetry somehow not quite up to the life, but still interesting
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