Prodigious Thrust

by William Everson

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1574230077
• ISBN13: 9781574230079
• Release Date: December 1996
• Publisher: Black Sparrow Press
• Length: 325 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.9" x 9.0"