The Veritable Years: Poems 1949-1966

This comprehensive scholarly edition gathers all the verse, including previously unpublished pieces, written by Everson during his eighteen years as a Dominican lay brother, Brother Antoninus. Taken together, these poems provide a passionate record of Everson/Antoninus's struggle to maintain strict vows of celibacy. That struggle is fraught with dramatic tension, as the poet strives to establish a fragile equilibrium between opposed psychic polarities of Spirit and Flesh.

• Author
• William Everson

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 417

• Publisher
• Black Sparrow Press

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9781574230826

• Genres
• poetry

• Release date
• 1998