William Everson (1912–1994)
Auteur de The Residual Years: Poems, 1934-1948
A propos de l'auteur
Notice de désambiguation :
(eng) Not the same person as William K. Everson, a professor and expert on American film industry.
Séries
Œuvres de William Everson
The achievement of Brother Antoninus; a comprehensive selection of his poems with a critical introduction (1967) 10 exemplaires
Naked Heart: Talking on Poetry, Mysticism, and the Erotic (American Poetry Studies in Twentieth Century Poetry and… (1992) 8 exemplaires
The crooked lines of God; poems, 1949-1954 7 exemplaires
In Media Res, Canto One of an Autobiographical Epic: Dust Shall be the Serpent's Food (1984) 3 exemplaires
Prologue: At The Edge 3 exemplaires
the crooked lines of god 3 exemplaires
William Everson, on writing the Waterbirds and other presentations : collected forewords and afterwords, 1935-1981 (1983) 3 exemplaires
Eastward the Armies 2 exemplaires
Ravaged with joy : a record of the poetry reading at the University of California, Davis, May 16, 1975 (1998) 2 exemplaires
War Elegies 2 exemplaires
The Poet is Dead 1 exemplaire
Brother Antoninus: Poet, Printer and Religious 1 exemplaire
A Collection of Books and Manuscripts With A Foreword By Ralph Sipper and Preface By William Everson (1987) 1 exemplaire
The Blowing Seed 1 exemplaire
American bard by Walt Whitman : being the preface to the first edition of Leaves of grass now restored to its native… 1 exemplaire
The year's declension 1 exemplaire
The Vision of Felicity 1 exemplaire
Poems mcmxlii 1 exemplaire
Night Scene 1 exemplaire
Tendril in the Mesh 1 exemplaire
Out of the West 1 exemplaire
Sixty Five 1 exemplaire
Who Is She That Looketh Forth as the Morning 1 exemplaire
A Man Who Prints 1 exemplaire
Cutting the Firebreak 1 exemplaire
The Fountain of Pain 1 exemplaire
And so came to a close the formative years 1 exemplaire
Cougar 1 exemplaire
Blackbird Sundown 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
American Poetry: The Twentieth Century, Volume Two: E. E. Cummings to May Swenson (2000) — Contributeur — 407 exemplaires
War No More: Three Centuries of American Antiwar and Peace Writing (2016) — Contributeur — 86 exemplaires
Possibilities of Poetry: An Anthology of American Contemporaries (1970) — Contributeur — 17 exemplaires
Peace or perish : a crisis anthology — Contributeur — 4 exemplaires
San Francisco poets [sound recording] — Contributeur — 1 exemplaire
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom légal
- Everson, William Oliver
- Autres noms
- Antoninus, Brother
- Date de naissance
- 1912-09-10
- Date de décès
- 1994-06-03
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieu de naissance
- Sacramento, California, USA
- Lieu du décès
- Santa Cruz, California, USA
- Lieux de résidence
- Sacramento, California, USA
Santa Cruz, California, USA
Waldport, Oregon, USA - Études
- California State University, Fresno
- Professions
- monk
poet - Prix et distinctions
- Shelley Memorial Award (1977/1978)
- Notice de désambigüisation
- Not the same person as William K. Everson, a professor and expert on American film industry.
Membres
Critiques
The masks of drought par William Everson
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 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.… (plus d'informations)
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
Listes
Beat (1)
Prix et récompenses
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 60
- Aussi par
- 11
- Membres
- 383
- Popularité
- #63,101
- Évaluation
- 4.0
- Critiques
- 2
- ISBN
- 41
- Favoris
- 3