The price of experience
By: Clayton Eshleman
Series: Black Widow Press modern poetry series
Publisher: Black Widow Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Boston, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 483
ISBN-13: 9780985612207
Description: "Clayton Eshleman's The Price of Experience-the title comes from "Night Two" of William Blake's The Four Zoas-is a literary anatomy, including two long poems ("The Moistinsplendor" and "An Anatomy of the Night"); three New York City stories; a journal kept during a 1985 trip to Brittany; essays on Paul Blackburn, César Vallejo, Pierre Joris and Aimé Césaire; reviews of works by Lee Hickman, Charles Olson, Chaim Soutine, and Leon Golub; eleven lectures on the Upper Paleolithic painted caves of southwestern France; notes on Carolee Schneemann, aprenticehood, the Medusa, and Rodin; four interviews and a conversation with Robert Kelly; prose poems inspired by the work of Daumier and Laura Solorzano; and "Erratics," a collection of sightings, aphorisms, tiny poems, quotations, gists and piths."--Publisher's website.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: A note on Carolee Schneemann's Fuses ; The moistinsplendor ; Three New York City stories ; Adhesive love ; A note on Leland Hickman's Tiresias I: 9:B: Great slave lake suite ; The answer man.; title: Our journey around the drowned city of is; title: Paul Blackburn's parallel voyages ; Apprenticehood ; Leon Golub at Barbara Gladstone ; From Sulfur: noticings 1 ; Call who Ishmael? ; From Sulfur: Noticings 2 ; Vallejo's succulent snack of unity ; From Sulfur: noticing 3 ; A note on Medusa's sources ; The first strophe of Aimé Césaire's Notebook of a return to the native land ; A note on Rodin and Upper Paleolithic cave wall engravings and sculpture ; Soutine impacted ; Daumier moments ; A note on Antinoff's "Spiritual Atheism" ; Adrienne Rich's Telephone ringing in the Labyrinth.; title: Lectures on the ice age painted caves of southwestern France ; Approaching the caves ; The Laussel Bas-relief sculptures ; Rouffignac and Combarelles ; Font-de-Gaume ; Lascaux ; Cougnac ; Pech Merle ; Bernifal ; St.-Cirq ; Gargas ; Niaux.; title: Spelunking with Clayton: an interview by Jared Demick ; From an interview with Khaled al-Masri ; Jacket #36 interview: CE in conversation with Ian Irvine ; Sulfur & New American Writings: a trialogue ; 20 questions for Robert Kelly ; Letter to the Editors of The American Poetry Review.; title: Henri Michaux: Movements [1951] ; Aimé Césaire's lost, found, scattered body ; Glosses on the first 12 poems of Laura Solórzano's Lip Wolf ; Organized Nomadistorms of broken oases ; Erratics ; An anatomy of the night.