River-Root, A Syzygy ............, accompanied by galley's with manuscript corrections by Everson.

Item Details

Berleley, Oyez, 1976, Paper wraps

First printing, Very good

45pp. First edition in wrappers. In 1992 Thomas Crowell, Inc, contacted Robert Hawley of Oyez Press, requesting permission to publish William Everson's River-Root, which was published by Oyez, in 1976. Bill completed editing the work around Thanksgiving of 1993. Robert Hawley and John Carpenter agreed to pick-up the corrected copy to forward to Crowell during a pre-Christmas visit to Kingfisher Flat. However, Everson's health declined rapidly requiring round-the-clock care until his passing in June of 1994. 

With 7 pages of first galleys with manuscript corrections by Everson.

Everson conceived and wrote early drafts of River-Root  in 1956 while a Dominican at an Oakland Priory';

Everson considered River-Root his most prophetic work.

Hardcover edition, signed. #104 of 200cc.