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From Scratch
"Eshleman's work is a dazzling attempt to restore man's capacity to understand nature as divine, demonic, and human." --Kenneth Warren, American Book Review Eshleman's is a highly individual poetry, yet one that demonstrates how each of us belongs, not just to our self, but also to those numberless selves who've gone before and to the collective human consciousness that underlies all our thoughts. Here are hymns of praise for the great image-makers of the late Ice Age and to their modern descendants; here too are tributes to the master-spirits of the poet's inner life. From Scratch is a suite of poems, each exploring a station on one poet's way toward self-creation.
Clayton Eshleman
Eshleman's editing output, tapes, unpublished manuscripts, ephemera, criticism, reviews, pseudonyms, library holdings of archival materials. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Companion Spider
A penetrating exploration of poetic life by a veteran poet, translator, and editor. Companion Spider is the accumulated work of a poet and translator who goes more deeply into the art and its process and demands than anyone since Robert Duncan. Clayton Eshleman is one of our most admired and controversial poets, the translator of such great international poets as César Vallejo, Aimé Césaire and Antonin Artaud, and founder and editor of two important literary magazines, Sulfur and Caterpillar. As such, Eshleman writes about the vocation of poet and of the poet as translator as no one else in America today; he believes adamantly that art must concern itself with vision, and that poets learn...
Juniper Fuse
A commanding meditation on the development of early human imagination.
The Complete Poetry
"César Vallejo is the greatest Catholic poet since Dante—and by Catholic I mean universal."—Thomas Merton, author of The Seven Storey Mountain "An astonishing accomplishment. Eshleman's translation is writhing with energy."—Forrest Gander, author of Eye Against Eye "Vallejo has emerged for us as the greatest of the great South American poets—a crucial figure in the making of the total body of twentieth-century world poetry. In Clayton Eshleman's spectacular translation, now complete, this most tangled and most rewarding of poets comes at us full blast and no holds barred. A tribute to the power of the imagination as it manifests through language in a world where meaning has always t...
The Grindstone of Rapport
National Book Award winning poet/essayist/translator Clayton Eshleman has written well over 30 books and has had hundreds of articles/essays/poems published throughout the world in the 40 years he has been writing. His work is included in many anthologies and his poetry has been translated into a number of other languages. This is the first comprehensive anthology published looking at the whole of his body of work: from translations to poetry to essays and prose poems. Winner of many major awards, including his second Landon Translation Award this year for his translation of Cesar Vallejo: The Complete Poems, Black Widow Press is pleased to bring to fruition this extensive overview of his work.
The Complete Posthumous Poetry
The Translation judges for the National Book Awards--Richard Miller, Alastair Reid, Eliot Weinberger--cited Clayton Eshleman and Jose Rubia Barcia's translation of Cesar Vallejo's The Complete Posthumous Poetry as follows: "This, the first National Book Award to be given to a translation of modern poetry, is a recognition of Clayton Eshleman's seventeen-year apprenticeship to perhaps the most difficult poetry in the Spanish language. Eshleman and his present collaborator, Jose Rubia Barcia, have not only rendered these complex poems into brilliant and living English, but have also established a definitive Spanish test based on Vallejo's densely rewritten manuscripts. In recreating this modern master in English, they have also made a considerable addition to poetry in our language."
Lyric and Dramatic Poetry, 1946-82
over emergent literature and will show him to be a major figure in the conflict between tradition and contemporary cultural identity.
My Devotion
In his first collection of poems since From Scratch (1998), Clayton Eshleman presents another masterly set of variations on his signature themes: the origins of consciousness as traced in Upper Paleolithic cave art ("Ah, the early imaginal chewing, breaking / down worlds, extracting their fusional juices") and the collective early-human consciousness that underlies all our thoughts ("I disappeared," says a 90,000-year-old hominid skull, addressing the reader "I disappeared into you"). Here are topical poems of protest and resistance; also timeless lyrics of descent, regeneration, and rebirth poems of a piece with the vast, glittering web of personal myth and imagery that Eshleman has been spinning for almost four decades. But the great surprise of My Devotion is how tender and elegiac many of Eshleman's recent poems are, among them a sequence documenting the life, work, and final illness of the late Ann Mikolowski, a painter of land-, sea- and skyscapes. Most moving of all are the many lyrics about the courage, beauty, humor, and desire of the poet's wife, Caryl; also her growing fragility, and the poet's first intimations of a life without her. -- Amazon.com.
