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Dark god of Eros : a William Everson reader / edited with an introduction by Albert Gelpi.
LIBRA PS3509.V65 A6 2003
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Everson, William, 1912-1994.
- Series:
- California legacy book
- A California legacy book
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- xxxvii, 403 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Santa Clara, Calif. : Santa Clara University ; Berkeley, Calif. : Heyday Books, [2003]
- Summary:
- In the course of his long life, William Everson was a farmer, a conscientious objector, an agnostic, a pantheist, a Dominican friar, a fine printer, and always a poet. As Brother Antoninus, he was part of San Francisco's Beat movement during the 1950s. From a cabin above the central California coast during the 1970s, the buckskin-fringed and white-bearded Everson inspired still another generation. Everson did not merely write poetry; it was for him the medium of an ecstatic, intensely sensual, and at times desperate search for spiritual fulfillment. Dark God of Eros: A William Everson Reader offers, for the first time, a volume of selections from the entire body of Everson's work. Albert Gelpi, an acclaimed literary critic and a personal friend of the poet, has compiled an authoritative selection of poetry, autobiography, interviews, letters, and criticism, devoting an entire chapter to Everson's commentary on the work of his mentor Robinson Jeffers, and another to comments by Czeslaw Milosz, Robert Bly, Robert Creeley, Robert Duncan, and Kenneth Rexroth on Everson's work. Illustrated with photographs of Everson and reproductions of his fine art printing, Dark God of Eros opens a window into the life and career of this brilliant and fascinating personality for whom, as Kenneth Rexroth said, "Everything is larger than life with a terrible beauty and pain."
- Contents:
- Poems: The Crooked Lines of God
- The Residual Years 1934-1948
- from These are the Ravens (1935)
- October Tragedy 2
- Winter Ploughing 2
- Muscat Pruning 3
- from San Joaquin (1939)
- Attila 3
- We in the Fields 5
- Bard 5
- The Rain on That Morning 6
- from the Masculine Dead (1942)
- Orion 7
- from the Residual Years (1944)
- The Hare: An Earlier Episode 9
- from Poems Mcmxlii (1945)
- Eastward the Armies 10
- The Raid 11
- from the Residual Years (1948)
- Chronicle of Division: Part Five: Sea 12
- In the Fictive Wish (1967; written 1946) 25
- The Blowing of the Seed: IV, V, VI (1966; written 1946) 33
- from the Year's Declension (1961; written 1948)
- The Dusk 38
- The Veritable Years 1949-1966
- from The Crooked Lines of God (1959)
- Triptych for the Living 39
- III. The Wise The Falling of the Grain
- V. In the Ripeness of the Weed 40
- VI. The Burning Book 41
- A Canticle to the Waterbirds 43
- The Encounter 46
- from The Cross Tore a Hole 47
- A Canticle to the Christ in the Holy Eucharist 53
- The South Coast 56
- Annul in Me My Manhood 56
- Out of the Ash 58
- from River-Root (1976; written 1957) 58
- from The Hazards of Holiness (1962)
- Passion Week 63
- What Birds Were There 64
- You, God 66
- A Frost Lay White on California 68
- I Am Long Weaned 75
- In the Breach 76
- In All These Acts 77
- God Germed in Raw Granite 79
- The Song the Body Dreamed in the Spirit's Mad Behest 80
- The Poet is Dead: A Memorial for Robinson Jeffers (1964) 83
- from the Rose of Solitude (1967)
- The Kiss of the Cross 91
- The Rose of Solitude 100
- The Vision of Felicity 101
- The Raging of the Rose 102
- The Integral Years 1966-1994
- Tendril in the Mesh (1973) 111
- from Man-Fate (1974)
- The Narrows of Birth 124
- The Challenge 127
- The Scout 132
- Black Hills 135
- Dark Waters 143
- from the Masks of Drought (1980)
- Storm-Surge 143
- Steelhead 145
- Cutting the Firebreak 147
- Rattlesnake August 149
- Kingfisher Flat 151
- Bride of the Bear 154
- Spotfire 158
- The High Embrace 163
- Stone Face Falls 165
- Spikehorn 168
- from Renegade Christmas (1984)
- Sixty-Five 170
- Reaper 171
- from Dust Shall Be the Serpent's Food (1991)
- Canto Five: The Blood of the Poet 173
- Autobiography
- from Prodigious Thrust (1996; Written 1952-1956)
- from From the Depths of a Void 178
- from The Falling of the Grain 205
- Letter to Allan Campo, September 11, 1959 220
- A Poet's Belief (1976) 225
- The Veritable Years (1978) 229
- Everson and Jeffers
- Not Without Wisdom (1962) 234
- Archetype West, from Chapter 11 (1976) 240
- Divinely Superfluous Beauty (1988) 246
- On Robinson Jeffers (1990) 255
- Poets and Poetics
- A Conversation with Brother Antoninus (1962) 268
- The Mystic Call (1968) 284
- On Writing the Waterbirds (1968) 288
- Dionysus & The Beat (1975) 292
- Archetype West, Chapter 14 (1976) 302
- The Poet as Prophet (1976) 307
- Some Late Reflections (1980; from The Light the Shadow Casts, 1996) 316
- Printing
- Latter-day Handpress (1949) 322
- Printing as a Performing Art (1965) 331
- The Poem as Icon (1976) 341
- Everson in Company: Estimates and Impressions by Fellow Poets
- Kenneth Rexroth 356
- Robert Duncan 358
- Mary Fabilli 362
- Robert Bly 363
- Robert Creeley 365
- Denise Levertov 367
- Czeslaw Milosz 369
- Mary Norbert Korte 369
- Robert Hass 370
- Bill Hotchkiss 376
- Coda: Erotic Mysticism
- from The Excesses of God (1988) 382.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1890771643
- OCLC:
- 51460950
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