Abstract
Steven B. Herrmann, “A Conversation with William Everson: Shamanism, American Poetry, and the Vision Quest,” in THE SAN FRANCISCO JUNG INSTITUTE LIBRARY JOURNAL, 2005, 24:4, 70–88. This conversation examines how the shamanic archetype influenced the life and poetry of William Everson and the theory of charismatic vocation he developed in his course “Birth of a Poet” at the University of California, Santa Cruz. The vision quest is discussed as a paradigm for initiation into the unconscious. Everson and Herrmann discuss how the poet-shaman enThis content downloaded from 207.46.13.0 on Tue, 17 May 2016 05:57:43 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms
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