Companion Spider

Clayton Eshleman, poet, founder of literary magazines Sulfur and Caterpillar, and translator of Aim C saire, Antonin Artaud and Cesar Vallejo, has authored a collection of essays on the reading and writing of poetry, Companion Spider. In it, Eshleman parses works by Lorca, Artaud and C saire. He argues for a system of apprenticeship for young poets, and he excoriates The Norton Anthology of Poetry for its neglect of Objectivist and Language poets. With a foreword by Adrienne Rich. (Jan.)