The Mate-Flight of Eagles: Two Poems on the Love-Death of the Cross (Signed)
Newcastle, CA: The Blue Oak Press, 1977.
Limited First Edition. Hardcover.
#75 of a limited first printing of 100 hand-numbered copies signed by Everson.
With an Afterword by Allan Campo; Illustrated by Richard Hotchkiss; Photographs by Jerry N. Uelsmann; Distributed by the Capra Press.
Everson entered the Dominican Order as Brother Antoninus in 1951 and left it in 1969. The two poems published here “A Savagery of Love” (1952) and its sequel “The Cross Tore A Hole” (1954) together constitute a kind of apotheosis of one man’s immersion in the spiritual life, the baptismal phase.
Item #900949ISBN: 00912950277
7-3/4 x 9-5/8”, ¼ brown leatherette, off-white linen over boards, peach colored endpapers, 46pp, illustrated.
Fine in very good rubbed dust wrapper with tiny hole at rear flap fold, in protective mylar.
Price: $75.00