num_pages: 417
description: This comprehensive scholarly edition gathers all the verse, including previously unpublished pieces, written by Everson during his eighteen years as a Dominican lay brother, Brother Antoninus.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.
language: English
title: The Veritable Years: Poems 1949-1966
titlecomplete: The Veritable Years: Poems 1949-1966 (Collected Poems)
genres: Poetry
ratings_count: 31
publisher: Black Sparrow Press