Excerpt from The Crooked Lines of God: Poems 1949-1954 In 1950 the straight writing, like the handwriting on the wall, that takes us where we least expect, took me to the poor. I had thought that year to enter the Franciscans but something intervened, and I was drawn to a Catholic Worker House in the Oakland slums - fourteen months, each a new crucifixion of the sensibility. The psychology of this phase 15 markedly Franciscan, as I understood 1t, modified by the first imbibing of the Spanish myst1es. Here too came crooked poems, but not so many; already the cramp was setting in. These constitute Part II. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The Crooked Lines of God: Poems 1949-1954 (Classic Reprint)

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EVERSON, William

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Poetry

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An event of rare literary distinction, this book records the conjunction between two distinguished American poets, illuminating not only their work and their connection but also the deep strain of pantheistic mysticism in the American tradition. In 1934, William Everson came across a volume of Jeffers's poetry. In Everson's word, the power of Jeffers 'broke my own acquired agnosticism and compelled me to think of myself as a manifestly religious man. It is a power I still attest to in writing this study, a power which I continue to think of as an undiluted religious force'. It was after reading Jeffers that Everson's vocation as a poet emerged, and though they never met or corresponded, Everson has remained loyal and dedicated to Jeffers throughout his life. Everson, who published extensively under his religious name Brother Antoninus during his nearly twenty years as a Dominican lay brother, has become one of the most knowledgeable scholars and critics of Jeffers, as well as his one avowed poetic disciple. This book is written as a series of over-lapping and ever-widening meditations on Jeffers's sense of God, nature, the self, and language.

The Excesses of God: Robinson Jeffers as a Religious Figure

Religion & Spirituality

Stanford University Press

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An uninhibited human document, this book reveals the inner workings of two very different minds struggling to meet the high standards of authorship they had set for themselves. Each served as a mentor to the other. Everson, known later as Brother Antoninus, a poet of the Beat Generation, comments trenchantly on Powell's novels (not published until the late 1970s) and Powell persuades Everson to reconsider words and images in his poems and give them titles. The letters include many insights on music as the two writers grow and develop emotionally and intellectually.Robinson Jeffers is the leitmotif for the book: Powell had written the first critical study of the poet and Jeffer's poems inspired Everson. Other writers appear-M.F.K. Fisher, Theodore Dreiser, Robert Duncan, Kenneth Rexroth, Henry Miller, and Archibald MacLeish, to name a few. Also sculptors Gordon Newell and Clayton James; painters Morris Graves amd Dillwyn Parrish; publishers James Laughlin and Ward Richie.Everson's draft board sent him to a conscientious objectors camp i Oregon, where he founded The Fine Arts at Waldport. The enforced separation of his internment, 1943-46, led to the dissolution of his marriage. Powell's unprecedented leap from junior librarian at UCLA to university librarian took place during these years, and his progress as a writer of columns, book reviews, and books is revealed.

Take Hold Upon the Future: Letters on Writers and Writing, 1938-1946

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Powell, Lawrence Clark

Eshelman, William R.

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Scarecrow Press

Residual Years

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Man-Fate; The Swan Song of Brother Antoninus

W.W. Norton & Co., Inc.

"Poems of a man undergoing a major break fairly late in his life" wrote Everson about this collection of his poetry, the first collection after he left the Dominican Order, where he was known as Brother Antoninus.

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