The Veritable Years: Poems 1949-1966 (Collected Poems)
"William Everson vividly represented one of the great traditions of California poetry the prophetic visionary. His worldview was more religious, his temperament more mystical, and his voice more private than his spiritual and artistic model, Robinson Jeffers, and yet the two poets are recognizably kin.... Both wrote out of the elemental confrontation of man and untamed nature, both [had] poetic visions that emerged from an almost primal existential struggle. [And both] are irreplaceable, the genuine article." --Dana Gioia