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Written during his time in a monastery,  Prodigious Thrust is a work by William Everson that incorporates both prose and poetry with a monastic point of view. According to Everson in his preface, "What was conceived as essentially a book of poetry supported by an autobiographical context, came, through the incorporation of so many digressions, to swell out of all proportion, until the poems survive only as a kind of archipelago awash in an oce...

This comprehensive scholarly edition gathers all the verse, including previously unpublished pieces, written by Everson during his eighteen years as a Dominican lay brother, Brother Antoninus.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 po...

Written during his time in a monastery,  Prodigious Thrust is a work by William Everson that incorporates both prose and poetry with a monastic point of view that integrates the 'disjunctive elements' of this collection and informs its character. According to Everson in his preface, "...What was conceived as essentially a book of poetry supported by an autobiographical context, came, through the incorporation of so many digressions, to swell o...

Poetry. This second volume of William Everson's Collected Poems includes five books, as well as a selection of uncollected and previously unpublished poems. Albert Gelpi, of Stanford University, has commented that "if T.S. Eliot is the most important religious poet in English in the first half of the twentieth century, Everson/Antoninus is the most important religious poet of the second half of the twentieth century." In his 1978 preface to "T...

Excerpt from The Hazards of Holiness: Poems, 1957-1960For it does collapse, time and again. I have been writing poetry for thirty years, and despite my failures, I have known this encounter, this appeasement and absolution many times, but only momently. More and more, as the inner core clarifies, as the uses of poetry grope toward the most obscure reductions of the inner being and descend into the darkness below, I see what I felt most dimly f...

Excerpt from The Crooked Lines of God: Poems 1949-1954 In 1950 the straight writing, like the handwriting on the wall, that takes us where we least expect, took me to the poor. I had thought that year to enter the Franciscans but something intervened, and I was drawn to a Catholic Worker House in the Oakland slums - fourteen months, each a new crucifixion of the sensibility. The psychology of this phase 15 markedly Franciscan, as I understood...

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Excerpt from The Crooked Lines of God: Poems 1949-1954 So my new poetic vision, begun with a blaze back at conversion, slowly came to nothing. I wanted to write a great double work. I wanted to balance those fifteen years of a pagan pen with fifteen years of a holy one, the profane and the sacred. Out of the residual years of death I wanted to make an attestation to the veritable years of eternal life. But God is not so pat. He has other uses...

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 ...

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This magisterial work of scholarly reconstruction restores the entirety of William Everson's early poetry in a single volume.

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This third and concluding volume in the grand "life trilogy" of Everson's complete poems -- following The Residual Years: Poems 1934-1948 and The Veritable Years: Poems 1949-1966, both reissued last year by Black Sparrow -- brings into focus for the first time the full sweep of one of the great accomplishments of American poetry.A poet of moral conscience, natural landscape and spiritual meditation, Everson produced work of astonishing intelle...