Clayton Eshleman
Subtitle: the whole art
By: edited by Stuart Kendall
Publisher: Black Widow Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 278
ISBN-13: 9780985612252
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation; American poetry; History and criticism; Modern Literature
Description: "As a poet, translator, and editor, Clayton Eshleman has been a singularly seminal and synergetic force in American poetry for fifty years. His magazines Caterpillar and Sulfur served as experimental open sites, soundboards and repositories for the poetry and arts from the 1960s to the turn of the millennium...This wide-ranging anthology includes new and classic essays on key aspects of Eshleman's life as a poet, translator and editor by Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Pierre Joris, Andrew Joron, Robert Kelly, Herbert Lust, David MacLagan, Eric Mottram, John Olson, Jerome Rothenberg, Kenneth Warren, and Eliot Weinberger, among others."--back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Preface / Stuart Kendall; title: Preface: Things I think about when Eshleman comes to mind / Robert Kelly; title: Introduction: Life commitment / Stuart Kendall; title: Chronology; title: The spider and the caterpillar / Eliot Weinberger; title: Behind the iron grillwork / James Hillman; title: Three notes / Jerome Rothenberg; title: To moisten the atmosphere / Jed Rasula; title: Over coffee, alone / Pierre Joris; title: The poetics of rebirth and confidence / Eric Mottram; title: Eshleman's Tjurunga / John Olson; title: Earth diver / Andrew Joron; title: Archetypal configurations in Clayton Eshleman's underworld poetics / Kenneth Warren; title: Eshleman's caves / Jay Murphy; title: Eshleman and Emerson / Herbert Lust; title: Ferrying translation between Clayton Eshleman and Pierre Joris / Peter Cockelbergh; title: "The sisters' secret [interfering] child" / Rachel Blau DuPlessis; title: Painting, with words / David Maclagan; title: Taking it out, painting it in / Roberto Tejada; title: "The outright lie" / Niall McDevitt; title: The politics of the head / James Pate; title: The metaphysical web / Paul Stubbs; title: The smile of the beast / Michael McClure.