William Everson

William Everson

William Everson (1912-1994) was a Beat poet and critic born in Sacramento, California. A close friend of Kenneth Rexroth, Everson was also part of the San Francisco Renaissance. He was the founder of Lime Kiln Press, and wrote extensively on the poetry of Robinson Jeffers. Everson was a countercultural icon who went by the name, “Brother Antoninus.”

Man - Fate

Poetry by William Everson

“These are the poems of a man undergoing a major break fairly late in his years,’’ explains William Everson in his preface to Man-Fate. It is his first collection since leaving the Dominican order in December 1969, and with it the name of Brother Antoninus, by which he was known for twenty years as one of the foremost Catholic poets of our time. The book, he continues, ’’is a love poem sequence, a cycle of renewal, but it also concerns the monastic life, from the point of view of one who has renounced it.…
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The body of William Everson’s work is the record of a continuously passionate encounter with poetry.
—Robert Hass
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