The Crooked Lines of God SIGNED by Brother Antonius [William Everson]

The Crooked Lines of God by Brother Antoninus (William Everson)

Publishing: 1960, The University of Detroit Press; Michigan. Stated second edition, signed twice by the author as Brother Antonius as well as William Everson [for Mel Smith best wishes William Everson]. 1000 limited copies. 

This book is signed on the prelim as "Brother Atoninus" and inscbribed on the rear limitation page as "William Everson". The book is a collections from William Everson’s monastic period, published under his religious name Brother Antoninus. Written in the years immediately following his conversion to Catholicism and entrance into the Dominican order, these poems fuse the raw, confessional energy of the West Coast  San Francisco Renaissance circles with a rigorously sacramental imagination.

Condition: Publishers paper covered boards with black cloth spine, title in gilt on spine, jacket is clipped, light edge wear to top edge of jacket, overall in Very Good condition