Everything Preserved: Poems 1955-2005

I stay upright.

Nothing makes me go down dusty roads to change my style.

I don't believe in love anymore, the foghorn

blasted it out of me.

—from "Coronado Poet"

"Why did Landis Everson stop writing poetry for forty-three years?" asks The New York Times in a recent feature article. This question permeates Everson's extraordinary first book, Everything Preserved, which collects poem...