Fifty years after the Normandy invasion, and during the pomp and circumstance of the recent D-Day celebrations, the demise of poet William Everson (1912-94) seemed imperceptible, like the quiet leap up stream of the salmon and steelhead at Kingfisher Flat, California, the old fish hatchery at Swanton, now Davenport, down the road from Santa Cruz, where the poet lived during the last two decades of his life. Everson represents a silent group who refused induction during World War II, ...