Finding Aid for the William Everson Papers LSC.0640

Finding aid prepared by Courtney Dean, 2020.
UCLA Library Special Collections
Online finding aid last updated 2020 December 16.
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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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Preferred Citation

[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

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.

Scope and Contents

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