William Everson: Beginnings, As a Poet, Thinker and Man, Selected Bibliography, Sources, and a List of Books by Author William Everson

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William Everson (September 10, 1912 — June 3, 1994), also known as Brother Antoninus, was an American poet of the Beat generation and was also an author, literary critic and small press printer.

Beginnings more less

As a Poet, Thinker and Man more less

Everson was an influential member of the San Francisco Renaissance in poetry and worked closely with Kenneth Rexroth during this period of his life. Throughout his life, Everson was a devotee of the work and lifestyle of poet Robinson Jeffers. Much of his work as a critic was done on Jeffers's poetry.

Everson registered as an anarchist and a pacifist with his draft board, in compliance with the 1940 draft bill. In 1943, he was sent to a Civilian Public Service (CPS) work camp for conscientious objectors in Oregon. In Camp Angel at Waldport, Oregon, with other poets, artists and actors such as Kemper Nomland, William Eshelman, Kermit Sheets, Glen Coffield, George Woodcock and Kenneth Patchen, he founded a fine-arts program in which the CPS men staged plays and poetry-readings and learned the craft of fine printing. During his time as a conscientious objector, Everson completed The Residual Years, a volume of poems that launched him to national fame.

Everson joined the Catholic Church in 1948 and soon became involved with the Catholic Worker Movement in Oakland, California. He took the name "Brother Antoninus" when he joined the Dominican Order in 1951 in Oakland. A colorful literary and counterculture figure, he was subsequently nicknamed the "Beat Friar." He left the Dominicans in 1969 to embrace a growing sexual awakening, and married a woman many years his junior. The 1974 poem Man-Fate explores this transformation. Everson was stricken by Parkinson's Disease in 1972, and its effects on him became a powerful element in his public readings.

Everson spent most of his years living near the central California coast a few miles north of Santa Cruz in a cabin he dubbed "Kingfisher Flat". He was poet-in-residence at the University of California, Santa Cruz during the 1970s and 1980s. There he founded the Lime Kiln Press, a small press through which he printed highly sought-after fine-art editions of his own poetry, as well as of the works of other poets, including Robinson Jeffers and Walt Whitman. His papers are archived at the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library at UCLA and The Bancroft Library at UC Berkeley.

Black Sparrow Press recently released a three-volume series of the collected poems of Everson, the last volume of which was published in 2000.

Selected Bibliography more less

Poetry

These Are the Ravens (1935). San Leandro, CA: Greater Western Publishing.
San Joaquin (1939). Los Angeles: The Ward Ritchie Press.
War Elegies (1944). Waldport, Oregon: Untide Press.
The Residual Years (1948). New York: New Directions.
A Privacy of Speech (1949). Berkeley: The Equinox Press.
The Crooked Lines of God (1959). Detroit: University of Detroit Press.
The Hazards of Holiness (1962). Garden City, NY: Doubleday.
The Poet is Dead: a Memorial for Robinson Jeffers (1964). San Francisco: Auerhahn Press.
The Blowing of the Seed (1966). New Haven: Henry W. Wenning.
Single Source: The Early Poems of William Everson, 1934-1940 (1966). Berkeley: Oyez.
In the Fictive Wish (1967). Berkeley: Oyez.
The Rose of Solitude (1967). Garden City, NY: Doubleday.
The Springing of the Blade (1968) Reno, Nevada: The Black Rock Press.
A Canticle to the Water Birds (1968). Berkeley: Eizo.
The City Does Not Die (1969). Berkeley: Oyez.
The Last Crusade (1969). Berkeley: Oyez.
Who Is She That Looketh Forth as the Morning (1972). Santa Barbara: Capricorn Press.
Tendril in the Mesh (1973). Aromas, California: Cayucos Books.
Black Hills (1973). San Francisco: Didymus Press.
Man-Fate: The Swan Song of Brother Antoninus (1974). New York: New Directions (W.W. Norton)
River-Root: A Syzygy for the Bicentennial of These States (1976). Berkeley: Oyez.
The Veritable Years, 1949-1966 (1978). Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press.
The Masks Of Drought (1980). Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press.
Birth of a Poet (1982). Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press

Autobiography and interviews

Prodigious Thrust (1996). Santa Rosa, California: Black Sparrow Press.
Naked Heart: Talking on Poetry, Mysticism, and the Erotic (1992). Albuquerque: University of New Mexico, College of Arts and Sciences.
On Printing (1992). San Francisco: Book Club of California.
Take Hold Upon the Future: Letters on Writers and Writing, 1938-1946 (1994). Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press.

Literary criticism

Robinson Jeffers: Fragments of an Older Fury (1968) Berkeley: Oyez.
Archetype West: The Pacific Coast as a Literary Region (1974). Berkeley: Oyez.
Dionysus and the Beat: Four Letters on the Archetype (1977). Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press.
The Excesses of God: Robinson Jeffers as a Religious Figure (1988). Stanford, California: Stanford University Press.

Sources more less

Total Books: 45

2010 - Brother Antoninus Poet Printer and Religious Oral History Transcript and Related Material 19651966 (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781152506664
ISBN-10: 1152506668

2003 - Dark God of Eros a William Everson Reader [California Legacy] (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781890771645
ISBN-10: 1890771643
Genre: Literature & Fiction

2000 - The Integral Years Poems 19661994 [Everson, William, Crooked Lines of God, V. 3,] (Hardcover) → Paperback
ISBN-13: 9781574231090
ISBN-10: 157423109X
Genre: Literature & Fiction

1999 - The Veritable Years Poems 19491966 Including a Selection of Uncollected and Previously Unpublished Poems [Collected Poems, Vol 2] (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9781574230833
ISBN-10: 1574230832
Genre: Literature & Fiction

1998 - The Veritable Years Poems 19491966 [Everson, William, Crooked Lines of God, V. 2,] (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781574230826
ISBN-10: 1574230824
Genre: Literature & Fiction

1997 - The Residual Years Poems 19341948 [Everson, William, Poems, V. 1.] (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781574230550
ISBN-10: 1574230557
Genre: Literature & Fiction

1997 - The Residual Years Poems 19341948 Including a Selection of Uncollected and Previously Unpublished Poems [Collected Poems/William Everson, Vol 1] (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9781574230567
ISBN-10: 1574230565
Genre: Literature & Fiction

1996 - William Everson the Light the Shadow Casts (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780915117055
ISBN-10: 0915117053
Genre: Literature & Fiction

1996 - Prodigious Thrust (Paperback) → Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9781574230079
ISBN-10: 1574230077
Genres: Biographies & Memoirs, Literature & Fiction

1996 - William Everson the Light the Shadow Casts Five Interviews with William Everson Plus Corresponding Poems (Hardcover)

1992 - Naked Heart Talking on Poetry Mysticism and the Erotic [American Poetry Studies in Twentieth Century Poetry and Poetics] (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780962917240
ISBN-10: 0962917249
Genres: Literature & Fiction, Reference

1990 - The Engendering Flood [Dust Shall Be the Serpent's Food] (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9780876858073
ISBN-10: 0876858078

1990 - More Classics of the Horror Film (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780806511795
ISBN-10: 0806511796
Genre: Humor & Entertainment

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1990 - Riverroot a Syzygy [Revised Edition] (Paperback)

1988 - The Excesses of God Robinson Jeffers As a Religious Figure (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9780804714150
ISBN-10: 0804714150
Genre: Literature & Fiction

1985 - Landing Signals (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780914485094
ISBN-10: 0914485091
Genre: Literature & Fiction

1984 - Renegade Christmas (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9780935716290
ISBN-10: 0935716297

1974 - Everson Manfate [New Directions Book] (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780811205214
ISBN-10: 0811205215
Genre: Literature & Fiction

Earth Poetry Selected Essays and Interviews of William Everson 1950 1977 (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9780685502112
ISBN-10: 0685502112

River Root [Signed Limited Edition] (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9780685792681
ISBN-10: 0685792684

River Root a Suzygy for the Bicentennial of These States (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780685792698
ISBN-10: 0685792692

Archetype West (Paperback) → Paperback

Classics of the Horror Film (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780806505954
ISBN-10: 0806505958

Manfate the Swan Song of Brother Antoninus [A New Directions book] (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9780811205207
ISBN-10: 0811205207
Genre: Literature & Fiction

The Films of Laurel and Hardy (Paperback)

Complete Films of Laurel Hardy [Spanish Edition] (Hardcover)

Classic of the Horror Film [Spanish Edition] (Hardcover)

The Veritable Years 19491966 (Paperback) → Hardcover

The Masks of Drought (Hardcover)

Birth of a Poet (Paperback) → Hardcover

The Mateflight of Eagles Two Poems on the Lovedeath of the Cross (Hardcover)

The Mateflight of Eagles (Hardcover)

The Blood of the Poet Selected Poems (Paperback)

Ravaged with Joy a Record of the Poetry Reading at the University of California Davis May 16 1975 (Other)