William Everson

William Everson
Author: Lee Bartlett
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Total Pages: 300
Release: 1988
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780811210607

n the annals of modern American letters, William Everson holds prime place as a poet of conscience and consciousness of self, his richly textured verse mapping his extraordinary inner journey as social activist, Dominican brother, and preeminent religious and philosophical poet. In William Everson: The Life of Brother Antoninus, Lee Bartlett charts the outer journey, drawing on the reminiscences of the poetry, his friends, and a wealth of archival material.

Birth of a Poet

Birth of a Poet
Author: William Everson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 210
Release: 1982
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN:

The Complete Films of Laurel and Hardy

The Complete Films of Laurel and Hardy
Author: William K. Everson
Publisher: Citadel Press
Total Pages: 228
Release: 1967
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780806501468

For the first time, all 99 Laurel and Hardy comedies, from early two-reelers through classic shorts and great features, are fully documented with cast-lists, credits and plot outlines. 400 photos.

American Silent Film

American Silent Film
Author: William K. Everson
Publisher: Da Capo
Total Pages: 387
Release: 1998
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 9780306808760

Praised as the "best modern survey of the silent period" (New Republic), this indispensable history tells you everything you need to know about American silent film, from the nickelodeons in the early 1900s to the birth of the first "talkies" in the late 1920s. The author provides vivid descriptions of classic pictures such as The Birth of a Nation, Intolerance, Sunrise, The Covered Wagon, and Greed, and lucidly discusses their technical and artistic merits and weaknesses. He pays tribute to acknowledged masters like D. W. Griffith, Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford, and Lillian and Dorothy Gish, but he also gives ample attention to previously neglected yet equally gifted actors and directors. In addition, the book covers individual genres, such as the comedy, western gangster, and spectacle, and explores such essential but little-understood subjects as art direction, production design, lighting and camera techniques, and the art of the subtitle. Intended for all scholars, students, and lovers of film, this fascinating book, which features over 150 film stills, provides a rich and comprehensive overview of this unforgettable era in film history.

The Residual Years

The Residual Years
Author: William Everson
Publisher: David R. Godine Publisher
Total Pages: 424
Release: 1997
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 9781574230550

This magisterial work of scholarly reconstruction restores the entirety of William Everson's early poetry in a single volume.

William Everson

William Everson
Author: Steven Herrmann
Publisher: Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency
Total Pages: 370
Release: 2015-12-10
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 1681811790

In 1991, author and Jungian psychotherapist Steven Herrmann was “called” by the poet-shaman William Everson to collaborate on writing a book. It is from that event that the subtitle of this book emerged, The Shaman’s Call. Its aim is to instill in readers that if one follows one’s calling from the shamanic archetype with the right attitude, it could culminate in true cosmic awareness. And, it would interconnect the psyche with nature, or what C.G. Jung called the “Self.” Such awareness is made clear through the transfiguring power of American poet-shamans, who transmit what they are called by nature to convey: that an experience of the Self is a life-altering experience. The calling can be transmitted by way of an animal power to a person through dreams, transformative relationships, in-depth psychotherapy, religious experiences, art, scientific endeavor, or through the hearing, reading or writing of shamanic poetry. During the conversations with Everson, emerged a vision of the way shamanism has been portrayed in American poetry, from Herman Melville's Moby Dick, to Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass, to Emily Dickinson’s The Complete Poetry, to what Everson achieved in his seminal poems, October Tragedy, The Encounter and Black Hills, and in his literature course at the University of California, Santa Cruz. The conversations form a link between the 80-year-old poet-shaman and the 35-year-old Jungian author Steven Herrmann, who was just beginning to find his own wings as a poet. The Expanded edition commemorates William Everson’s birth on September 10, 1912. Herrmann co-organized three Centennial events to celebrate Everson’s work in the fall of 2012. Part II contains Seven Meditations: William Everson’s Basic Teachings on Vocation, a final conversation with Everson on vocatypes, and Herrmann’s Centennial essays and poems.

Dark God of Eros

Dark God of Eros
Author: William Everson
Publisher: Heyday Books
Total Pages: 468
Release: 2003
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN:

Offers for the first time a volume of selections from the entire body of Everson's work, including poetry, autobiography, interviews, letters, and criticism.

Classics of the Horror Film

Classics of the Horror Film
Author: William K. Everson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 247
Release: 1990
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 9780806509006

Critical reviews of classic and otherwise noteworthy horror movies are organized according to single film and recurrent motif or theme

Hollywood Bedlam

Hollywood Bedlam
Author: William K. Everson
Publisher: Citadel Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1994
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 9780806515342

Prodigious Thrust

Prodigious Thrust
Author: William Everson
Publisher: David R. Godine Publisher
Total Pages: 336
Release: 1996
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781574230079

Written during his time in a monastery, Prodigious Thrust is a work by William Everson that incorporates both prose and poetry with a monastic point of view. According to Everson in his preface, "What was conceived as essentially a book of poetry supported by an autobiographical context, came, through the incorporation of so many digressions, to swell out of all proportion, until the poems survive only as a kind of archipelago awash in an ocean of prose."