n the annals of modern American letters, William Everson holds prime place as a poet of conscience and consciousness of self, his richly textured verse mapping his extraordinary inner journey as social activist, Dominican brother, and preeminent religious and philosophical poet. In William Everson: The Life of Brother Antoninus , Lee Bartlett charts the outer journey, drawing on the reminiscences of the poetry, his friends, and a wealth of archival...
I had the good fortune to meet William Everson several times in the autumn of 1975. He had left the Dominican order a few years before this time, and had settled into a further renewed way of life. He had the look of a tall elderly sage, and eyes betraying both wisdom and kindness. To find a biography of him was a treat, and a fine reading experience. As a teacher of contemporary young people I would say there is no great...
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