Poets just eat their hearts out
Huerta, Alberto
F Poets just eat their hearts out ifty years after the Normandy invasion, and during the pomp and circumstance of the recent D-Day...
...F Poets just eat their hearts out ifty years after the Normandy invasion, and during the pomp and circumstance of the recent D-Day celebrations, the demise of poet William ihserson 0912-94) seemed imperceptible, like the quiet le<ip up stream of the salmon and steelhcad at Kingfisher Mat...
...out ul tlini tension 'I he n.ilii>[i...
...h\ erson details his mk- in tfic v-ar in what is pei lups the ptMtest ti ibiilc In a ("() to those w ho sei v ed in the 1>-D.i> in^UMivr F-cir bi*\oiiJ the Sion i" uv :i«unnneni ( iniii...
...I-utsoii defined tor me his \oratH-n as a poet: "Old poets nncr die l'hev just lm their hearts out...
...But the life of this gentle Whitmanesque-looking poet was not without conflict...
...tidjjmentmg, 'Ilirown fcukoiiL-ieiv tiont...
...His CO status...
...il1- nn\L-s ^imIiiiji tor the I1n.1l iin\e...
...Everson was joined by a community of artists including Morris Grave> and printer Adrian Wilson...
...his dramatic separation by disrobing from the Dominican Ordei to marry at a December 7. 1969...
...The war swoepiri^: Idw.iuI .ipothi'osis, Ihi m:c'v> Nd/i nar mavhitk* Beaten ii> its knees...
...w.nJi .tmi w,m, Siitk'i nit: in the m>iiI wh.il it Milters in ihe flesh...
...deepen iL-lt\tnJ those immutable poetii...
...Although his original mentor was poet and essayist Kenneth Rexroth in San Francisco, Hverson sprang forward as one of the new poetic voices of his generation, following in the Robinson Jeffers tradition...
...These latter achieved renown in their own right...
...Everson represents a silent group who refused induction during World War 11...
...1 hi- pov eriul Amerii-an -v ei-p I •"in...
...and his three marriages were filled with irreeon•.'liable tension^ - omipli'xtiio.s ili.it often baffled his clos osi Inends Yet...
...mwicul poelrv, ami searched fin the .in.hei\iH> i't In...
...p m in vitals, borirn: rci:ioiseL'ssi\ m. \iul I. ri-nuiti.- from it...
...heii like .i bi-asi •¦ j-'uni von^.ir Ton^ing tn >pnn...
...Oregon...
...reading before a capacity crowd at the University of California at Davis...
...and whose beliefs made them COs (Conscientious Objectors;, serving their time ai Waldpon...
...it vus out ul these tensions that l-\erson pmJLk'ci] his eiolu...
...his service as Antoninus, a Dominican brother for nineteen years at Saint Albert's Priory...
...bruAwg...
...He also achieved great success as a printer...
...jiul hiiTiiiv ipurvts o* C .iJiii-mu and lJie Pjcillc Const IIin last nu.jor -ariling .md piinLing vcntuir was in 1(AS4...
...California, the old fish hatchery at Swanton, now Davenport, down (he road from Santa Cru/, where the poet lived dining the last two decades of his life...
...Fliis CO, iniir.k...
...his conversion to Catholicism...
...His incomplete No\ urn Psalterium P1IXII (Piub XII Psalter) is considered one of the two or three finest examples of handprcss printing in American history...
...he published m .1 nuniVn ,i ami limited i.\liiiot> the '"ir-i often proiecicd odiirtis ollHMift1 InMalui*K?\ C'jiitfi(''it1-'Mi/i Xuiobio^iuphn-ai t'i'it l)u\t Skull lir thr Seqwtit'\ / ««/ fBlack Sp,irnm I'ions 1 Imnicullv...
...Oakland, California...
...when, iili'iij...
...In a Man.li 9. l')X5, in(cr\icw .11 his home 111 Kingfisher I- hit...
...w iih Ajn.u1 \\ iNnn...
...I uiopo (.¦hiuiiIm-iI in a tonl.1a1i.1r purox>sm...
...primer, poet, .ind man ->f mairiHse will nut fibil> hL loryoticr -\I BEKIO Hi 'hR I \lht r;.i Hwnu s J 11 uwm uile profea-or of modem iinJ .-uiwii ii'i luiuuuvt * unhi f 'nnenity of Sun Front t\co...
Vol. 121 • July 1994 • No. 13
