William Everson: The Light the Shadow Casts
Clifton Ross
This book includes five interviews with William Everson, the late California master of poetry and core figure in the San Francisco Literary Renaissance which inspired the Beat movement. The interviews, which took place between 1980 and 1993, were conducted, edited and introduced by Clifton Ross. The book includes a selection of corresponding poems by Everson as well as poems the late poet chose from his collection which were dedicated to the psychoid Christ.
ISBN 0-915117-05-3, 120 pages, perfect bound glossy black and white cover, $14.95
About Clifton Ross
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Clifton Ross is a free lance writer and videographer who has been reporting on Latin America for over 25 years.He has edited many anthologies including: A Dream Made of Stars: A Bilingual Anthology of Nicaraguan Poetry and Voice of Fire: Communiques and Interviews of the Zapatista National Liberation Army. He is the translator of Quetzalcoatl by Ernesto Cardenal and author of When Good Dogs Have Bad Dreams: Four American Poets.
Fables for an Open Field has just been released in Spanish by La Casa Tomada of Venezuela. His forthcoming book of poems in translation, Traduciendo el Silencio, will be published later this year by Venezuela's Ministry of Culture editorial, Perro y Rana.
In 2005 Clifton represented the U.S. along with Genny Lim in Venezuela's World Poetry Festival.
Ross currently teaches English at Berkeley City College, Berkeley, California. He can be reached at clifross@gmail.com .
