Bartlett is an extremely fine narrator and expositor; he commands a vast body of material pertinent to Everson’s life and work, and has a fine sense of Everson’s poetry.
Lee Bartlett (1950- ) was born in Berkeley, California. He received his BA from the University of California, Berkeley and his PhD from the University of California, Davis. He currently works as assistant professor of English and director of the creative writing program at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque.
In 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 material.
Bartlett is an extremely fine narrator and expositor; he commands a vast body of material pertinent to Everson’s life and work, and has a fine sense of Everson’s poetry.
