Books by Clayton Eshleman and Complete Book Reviews
Clayton Eshleman, Author . Wesleyan Univ. $75 (356p) ISBN 978-0-8195-6605-8
Clearly and intensely focused, this 14th collection from Eshleman flows among styles of critical analysis, narrative, image and verse and invents a new form of phenomenological ekphrasis in the process. Eshleman centers the work on concrete and...
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Clayton Eshleman, Author . Black Widow Press $15.95 (109p) ISBN 978-0-9768449-5-2
The 31 poems in Eshleman's 15th collection embrace the world from multiple perspectives: the earth seen from outer space; details in the watercolors of the artist Mary Heebner; the situation at 4:22 p.m. in Como, Italy, on October 23, 2004. It...
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Clayton Eshleman, Author . Black Widow Press $29.95 (616p) ISBN 978-0-9795137-7-0
This scrupulously edited selection of poems, critical prose and translation represents more than 40 years of work from one of America's most committed, prolific and cosmopolitan poets. From inhabiting the imagination behind Paleolithic cave...
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Clayton Eshleman, Author Black Sparrow Press $15.95 (197p) ISBN 978-0-87685-935-3
Eshleman (Antiphonal Swing) here begins with an ars poetica that poses the question, ``What is missing?'' The question echoes throughout a sprawling collection. For this poet, our present age is marked by an absurd level of cruelty and violence; and
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Clayton Eshleman, Author Black Sparrow Press $28.95 (200p) ISBN 978-1-57423-071-0
Eshleman's latest is a mixed bag: three long poems focus on the artists Nora Jaffe and Chaim Soutine, and the poet Antonin Artaud; several shorter ones contemplate Upper Paleolithic cave art; others ponder works by de Kooning or take inspiration...
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Clayton Eshelman, Author, Clayton Eshleman, Author, Adrienne Cecile Rich, Introduction by Wesleyan University Press $26.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-8195-6483-2
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,...
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