The Integral Years: Poems, 1966-1994 : Including a Selection of Uncollected and Previously Unpublished PoemsDavid R. Godine Publisher, 2000 - 355 strán (strany) This third and concluding volume in the grand "life trilogy" of Everson's complete poems -- following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 intellectual energy, kinetic power and symbolic resonance in these writings of his later years -- his output from the last days of his life as a lay brother (Brother Antoninus) through his departure from religious orders, marriage, and resumption of a secular name and career. the sea lions are gone. In their place, Beyond the white line of the breakers, Drifts a gaggle of surfers, oblique on their boards, Facing seaward. From the shore One sees but the tilted torsos, Tense shoulders, the alert heads. They look to the far Wrinkling of the sea, surmisin increment: Which influx of the swell, impending, Will coalesce into consequentiality, Engender thrust, and, reaching forward, Stoop towering in, all ultimate Augmentation? This, in their mind's eye, Is the vision of beatitude: The great wave of their wonder. |
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The Terrible Torch | 5 |
And it creams | 6 |
Man of God Tall man | 10 |
And the storm swings in from the sea | 12 |
Daughter of earth and child of the wave | 13 |
Hymn to the Cosmic Christ | 14 |
THE SECULAR CITY 1969 1973 | 17 |
The City Does Not | 19 |
Danse Macabre | 171 |
Reaper | 173 |
Mexican Standoff | 175 |
DUST SHALL BE THE SERPENTS FOOD 19751991 | 179 |
In Medias | 181 |
Skald | 189 |
Hidden Life | 199 |
The Hollow Years | 207 |
Melt Down the Guns | 27 |
Blame It on the Jet Stream | 30 |
MANFATE 19691972 | 37 |
RITE OF PASSAGE | 39 |
Ebb at Evening | 41 |
ManFate | 43 |
Seed | 44 |
The Gauge | 45 |
Socket of Consequence | 46 |
In the Fulness of Time | 47 |
The Gash | 49 |
Gale at Dawn | 50 |
A TIME TO MOURN | 51 |
A Time to Mourn | 53 |
THE NARROWS | 71 |
Storm at Low Tide | 73 |
The Narrows of Birth | 74 |
The Challenge | 77 |
The Scout | 82 |
Black Hills | 84 |
The Dunes | 91 |
Dark Waters | 93 |
THE GLYPH OF GOD 19711985 | 95 |
THE MASKS OF DROUGHT | 97 |
StormSurge | 99 |
Goshawk | 101 |
Runoff | 102 |
Blackbird Sundown | 104 |
Jay Breed | 106 |
Steelhead | 110 |
Cutting the Firebreak | 113 |
Rattlesnake August | 115 |
Chainsaw | 118 |
The Visitation | 125 |
Kingfisher Flat | 128 |
Bride of the Bear | 131 |
Moongate | 135 |
Buck Fever | 141 |
The Summer of Fire | 145 |
Spotfire | 150 |
The High Embrace | 155 |
Stone Face Falls | 157 |
Spikehorn | 159 |
RENEGADE CHRISTMAS | 161 |
Sixty Five | 163 |
Renegade Christmas | 165 |
Cougar | 169 |
The Blood of the Poet | 217 |
American Occasional Poetry by William Everson | 221 |
The Kingfishers Cry by Bill Hotchkiss | 225 |
The Long Long Poem by Judith Shears | 247 |
A SELECTION OF UNCOLLECTED AND UNPUBLISHED POEMS | 257 |
by Allan Campo | 259 |
from EROS AND THANATOS 263 Note by William Everson | 263 |
Contents | 265 |
The Tarantella Rose | 267 |
The Vindication | 269 |
The Death of Jeffers | 271 |
Rose Recreant | 272 |
The ThingDeath | 275 |
Cinquain | 278 |
The Fountain of Pain | 279 |
Runway East | 281 |
Triad 285 Love laughs 285 No sound | 285 |
Seventy SunsTo L C | 286 |
Dust Shall Be the Serpents Food | 287 |
And what are its modes? | 288 |
TakesthePipe | 289 |
I had smelt it first | 294 |
Good morning | 295 |
DroughtBreaker | 296 |
Parkinsons Poem | 297 |
Ecstasy Line | 299 |
We chose the stately alder | 301 |
I lie panting 303 The great blue heron | 303 |
Killer Storm | 304 |
306 | 306 |
I stir fitfully | 308 |
The sacred distillate | 309 |
A shiver of silence | 310 |
Every poet is born twice | 311 |
The Wonder of the Child | 312 |
For the naked heart | 314 |
Canto VI | 315 |
And My Life Comes Round | 317 |
And the emptiness | 318 |
Hog Wild | 319 |
REGARDING DUST SHALL BE THE SERPENTS FOOD | 321 |
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Introduction by Allan Campo | 325 |
Self Interview by William Everson | 329 |
WILLIAM EVERSON | 339 |