Take Hold Upon the Future

Letters on Writers and Writing, 1938-1946

William Everson, Lawrence Clark Powell

Reveals the inner workings of two very different minds struggling to meet the high standards of authorship they set for themselves. Everson, known later as Brother Antoninus, a poet of the Beat Generation, comments trenchantly on Powell's novels (not published until the late 1970s). Powell persuades Everson to reconsider words and images in his poems and give them titles.