The Collected Poems of William Everson (Brother Antoninus): Volume 2: The Veritable Years, 1949-1966 Book

	Bibliographical Note
	Prefatory Note
	Note on Typography
	Foreword: Liability Unlimited
	Introduction: Everson/Antoninus: Contending with the Shadow
	Preface
	Prologue: At the Edge	5
	Triptych for the Living : I. The Uncouth	11
	Triptych for the Living : II. The Coming	12
	Triptych for the Living : III. The Wise	14
	The Flight in the Desert	15
	The Making of the Cross	17
	Gethsemani	19
	The Massacre of the Holy Innocents	33
	The Falling of the Grain : I. Toward Solstice	35
	The Falling of the Grain : II. The Portent	35
	The Falling of the Grain : III. The Quittance of the Wound	36
	The Falling of the Grain : IV. The Crowning of the Queen	37
	The Falling of the Grain : V. In the Ripeness of the Weed	38
	The Falling of the Grain : VI. The Burning Book	39
	The Falling of the Grain : VII. From the Summer of the Flesh	40
	The Falling of the Grain : VIII. Past Solstice	56
	The Falling of the Grain : IX. Advent	58
	The Screed of the Flesh	59
	The Screed of the Sand	67
	The Screed of the Frost	70
	A Canticle to the Waterbirds	77
	The Encounter	80
	A Penitential Psalm	81
	Hospice of the Word	82
	A Jubilee for St. Peter Martyr	85
	The Mate-Flight of Eagles	88
	A Savagery of Love	88
	The Cross Tore a Hole	94
	The Month of the Dead	108
	A Canticle to the Christ in the Holy Eucharist	109
	The South Coast	112
	Annul in Me My Manhood	113
	Out of the Ash	115
	River-Root / A Syzygy	119
	Jacob and the Angel	151
	All the Way to Heaven	155
	A Siege of Silence	157
	Passion Week	158
	Zone of Death	159
	What Birds Were There	160
	Saints	162
	You, God	167
	A Frost Lay White on California	169
	I Am Long Weaned	176
	In the Breach	177
	Sleep-Tossed I Lie	178
	The Word	179
	Black Christ	180
	A Canticle to the Great Mother of God	184
	In All These Acts	188
	God Germed in Raw Granite	190
	The Song the Body Dreamed in the Spirit's Mad Behest	192
	The Hazards of Holiness : I. The Beheading of John the Baptist	195
	The Hazards of Holiness : II. Judith and Holofernes	198
	The Conversion of St. Paul	203
	The Last Crusade	209
	In Savage Wastes	220
	The Poet is Dead	229
	Missa Defunctorum	237
	Missa Sanctorum	239
	Prologue	243
	The Way of Life and the Way of Death	245
	The Kiss of the Cross	249
	Immortal Strangeness	257
	The Canticle of the Rose	271
	The Rose of Solitude	281
	On the Thorn	283
	The Underlying Torsion	296
	The Vision of Felicity	297
	I Eat Life Back	298
	From the Rock Untombed	299
	The Raging of the Rose	304
	The Face I Know	311
	The Afterglow of the Rose	317
	Epilogue	319
	Epilogue: Who Is She That Looketh Forth as the Morning	323
	Afterword: The Flesh of Divinity - "River-Root" and The Veritable Years	329
App. A	A Selection of Uncollected and Unpublished Poems
	Sodom Went Down	348
	In Youth I Fell	350
	Out of the Multitudinous Sin	352
	Sin Is the Will in Action	354
	A Fragment for the Birth of God	356
	A Night Restless with Wind	357
	What Is the Way of Death?	360
	The Mass Begins	362
	Compliance of the Will : II. Soul and Self	366
	The Massacre of the Holy Innocents : [I] II. The Thing Regarded as Contradiction	371
	The Massacre of the Holy Innocents II. The Thing Regarded as Contradiction [Revised]	375
	One Fragment for God	382
	No. No.	383
	Boneless, and of No Bone Made	384
	Original Sin	386
	The Tar Pits	388
	Help Me O God	389
	Out of Thy Body I Am Fed	391
	Babed on Thy Breast	392
	The Sarabande of the Rose	393
	The Scruff	394
App. B	William Everson, Biographical Statement and Chronology	397
	Index of Titles	409
	Index of First Lines	411
	The Principal Publications of William Everson	413
	About the Editors & Contributors	417