William Everson

Bibliography

Poetry

• There Are the Ravens (1935). San Leandro, CA: Greater Western Publishing.
• San Joaquin (1939). Los Angeles: The Ward Ritchie Press.
• War Elegies (1944). Waldport, Oregon: Untide Press.
• The Residual Years (1948). New York: New Directions.
• A Privacy of Speech (1949). Berkeley: The Equinox Press.
• The Crooked Lines of God (1959). Detroit: University of Detroit Press.
• The Hazards of Holiness (1962). Garden City, NY: Doubleday.
• The Poet is Dead: a Memorial for Robinson Jeffers (1964). San Francisco: Auerhahn Press.
• The Blowing of the Seed (1966). New Haven: Henry W. Wenning.
• Single Source: The Early Poems of William Everson, 1934-1940 (1966). Berkeley: Oyez.
• In the Fictive Wish (1967). Berkeley: Oyez.
• The Rose of Solitude (1967). Garden City, NY: Doubleday.
• The Springing of the Blade (1968) Reno, Nevada: The Black Rock Press.
• A Canticle to the Water Birds (1968). Berkeley: Eizo.
• The City Does Not Die (1969). Berkeley: Oyez.
• The Last Crusade (1969). Berkeley: Oyez.
• Who Is She That Looketh Forth as the Morning (1972). Santa Barbara: Capricorn Press.
• Tendril in the Mesh (1973). Aromas, California: Cayucos Books.
• Black Hills (1973). San Francisco: Didymus Press.
• Man-Fate: The Swan Song of Brother Antoninus (1974). New York: New Directions (W.W. Norton)
• River-Root: A Syzygy for the Bicentennial of These States (1976). Berkeley: Oyez.
• The Veritable Years, 1949-1966 (1978). Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press.
• The Masks Of Drought (1980). Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press.
• Birth of a Poet (1982). Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press

Autobiography and interviews

• Prodigious Thrust (1996). Santa Rosa, California: Black Sparrow Press.
• Naked Heart: Talking on Poetry, Mysticism, and the Erotic (1992). Albuquerque: University of New Mexico, College of Arts and Sciences.
• On Printing (1992). San Francisco: Book Club of California.
• Take Hold Upon the Future: Letters on Writers and Writing, 1938-1946 (1994). Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press.

Literary criticism

• Robinson Jeffers: Fragments of an Older Fury (1968) Berkeley: Oyez.
• Archetype West: The Pacific Coast as a Literary Region (1974). Berkeley: Oyez.
• Dionysus and the Beat: Four Letters on the Archetype (1977). Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press.
• The Excesses of God: Robinson Jeffers as a Religious Figure (1988). Stanford, California: Stanford University Press.