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Take Hold Upon the Future
Eshelman, William R.; Everson, William; Powell, Lawrence Clark
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Description for Take Hold Upon the Future
Hardback. Num Pages: 634 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ABM; 3JJH; DCQ; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 224 x 145 x 40. Weight in Grams: 880.
An uninhibited human document, this book reveals the inner workings of two very different minds struggling to meet the high standards of authorship they had set for themselves. Each served as a mentor to the other. Everson, known later as Brother Antoninus, a poet of the Beat Generation, comments trenchantly on Powell's novels (not published until the late 1970s) and Powell persuades Everson to reconsider words and images in his poems and give them titles. The letters include many insights on music as the two writers grow and develop emotionally and intellectually. Robinson Jeffers is the leitmotif for ... Read more
An uninhibited human document, this book reveals the inner workings of two very different minds struggling to meet the high standards of authorship they had set for themselves. Each served as a mentor to the other. Everson, known later as Brother Antoninus, a poet of the Beat Generation, comments trenchantly on Powell's novels (not published until the late 1970s) and Powell persuades Everson to reconsider words and images in his poems and give them titles. The letters include many insights on music as the two writers grow and develop emotionally and intellectually. Robinson Jeffers is the leitmotif for ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Scarecrow Press United States
Number of pages
634
Condition
New
Number of Pages
634
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9780810828780
SKU
V9780810828780
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About Eshelman, William R.; Everson, William; Powell, Lawrence Clark
William Eshelman, library director at California State University/Los Angeles and at Bucknell University, editor of the California Librarian and the Wilson Library Bulletin, was president of The Scarecrow Press, 1978-1986.
Reviews for Take Hold Upon the Future
...a rich account of the formative intellectual years of two important western literary figures who will likely not be remembered as well as they ought to be....fascinating record of creativity, intellect, and emotion in a critical decade of the twentieth century....
Oregon Historical Quarterly
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Oregon Historical Quarterly
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