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Contributing Institution:
UCLA Library Special Collections
Title: William Everson papers
Creator:
Everson, William, 1912-1994
Source:
Powell, Lawrence Clark
Identifier/Call Number: LSC.0640
Physical Description:
0.4 Linear Feet
(1 box)
Date (inclusive): 1948-1958
Physical Location: Stored off-site. All requests to access special collections material must be made in advance using the request button located
on this page.
Language of Material: Materials are in English.
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Conditions Governing Reproduction and Use
Property rights to the physical objects belong to the UCLA Library Special Collections. All other rights, including copyright,
are retained by the creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds the copyright
and pursue the copyright owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC Regents do not hold the copyright.
[Identification of item], William Everson papers (Collection 640). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research
Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of Lawrence Clark Powell, circa 1949.
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UCLA Catalog Record ID:
4232993
Administrative/Biographical History
William Oliver Everson was born on Sept. 10, 1912 in Sacramento, California; attended Fresno State College (1931, 1934-5);
was cannery worker and laborer for Civilian Conservation Corps, 1932-3, later working as a farmer; was co-founder of Untide
Press, Waldport, OR about 1944; after the war he joined an anarchopacifist group of poets surrounding Kenneth Rexroth in San
Francisco; was active in the slums of Oakland in the Catholic Worker Movement before becoming a Roman Catholic monk in the
Dominican order and taking the name Brother Antoninus in 1951; left the order to marry in 1969; in 1971 he became a master
printer with the Lime Kiln Press, and a poet-in-residence at UC Santa Cruz; won a Pulitzer Prize nomination for The crooked
lines of God (1959); his poetry, published under both Everson and Brother Antoninus, also includes These are the ravens (1935),
The residual years (1944), The hazards of holiness (1962), The rose of solitude (1964), The blowing of the seed (1966), The
veritable years (1978), and The masks of drought (1979); he died on June 3, 1994.
This collection consists of a typescript draft of the poems, A chronicle of division and a holograph manuscript draft in a
notebook of New growth, a new greening : an epithalamian by William Everson, also known as Brother Antoninus.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Powell, Lawrence Clark