Clayton Eshleman

CLAYTON ESHLEMAN (Indianapolis, 1935) poet and essayist is the author of some 30 books, including The Grindstone of Rapport/ A Clayton Eshleman Reader (Black Widow Press, 2008), Juniper Fuse: Upper Paleolithic Imagination & the Construction of the Underworld (Wesleyan University Press, 2003) and the translator of The Complete Poetry of Cesar Vallejo (University of California Press, 2007). He received the National Book Award in 1979 for his translations of the poetry of Cesar Vallejo. He was founding editor of the famous literary magazines Caterpillar (1967–73) and Sulfur (1981–2000). He lives with his wife Caryl in Ypsilanti, Michigan.

ORPHIC ONTOLOGIES

For Matthew Eshleman Are you, Muse, the spume off Laussel, archaicdust dimpled & savoury that I nourish to steel myselfagainstthe Selfhood that lays claim to all rapture?Is your fertility still based in the blood-filled bison hornLaussel grasps in her right hand raised slightly below herhead? Might the egg-shaped relief of

2016.07.04.

FIVE POEMS FROM UNDER WORLD ARREST (1994)

NOTES “I awake at 5 AM seeing a Serbian bayonet…”: An attempt to “stew” in my consternation over reading of this hideous desecration of intercourse. The porcupine imagery acknowledges the poem’s attempt to enact some sort of retribution, to pierce the reader with its unfolding distress. The last line –

2014.09.02.

A NOTE ON TRANSLATING FERENC JUHÁSZ’S THE BIOGRAPHY OF A WOMAN

In June 1986, Caryl Eshleman and I were invited to spend a month in Hungary by the NYC Soros Foundation. The idea of the visit, as well as contact with the Foundation, originated in 1985 with our friend Gyula Kodolányi, whom we had met while he was a Fulbright Fellow

2013.01.04.

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