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Clayton Eshleman

Author of Conductors of the Pit: Artaud, Holan, Cesaire, Vallejo, Csoori, Breton, Neruda, Radnoti, Rimbaud, Hierro, Bador, Juhasz, Szocs

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Clayton Eshleman is an American poet, translator, and editor. He is a professor emeritus at Eastern Michigan University.

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Works by Clayton Eshleman

Conductors of the Pit: Artaud, Holan, Cesaire, Vallejo, Csoori, Breton, Neruda, Radnoti, Rimbaud, Hierro, Bador,… (1988) 35 copies
Juniper Fuse: Upper Paleolithic Imagination & the Construction of the Underworld (2003) 30 copies
The Name Encanyoned River: Selected Poems 1960-1985 (1985) 20 copies
Under World Arrest (1994) 18 copies
Hades in Manganese (1981) 17 copies
Fracture (1983) 16 copies
Companion Spider: Essays (2002) 15 copies
Hotel Cro-Magnon (1989) 14 copies
A Caterpillar Anthology: A Selection of Poetry and Prose from Caterpillar Magazine (1971) 11 copies
From Scratch (1998) 10 copies
My Devotion: New Poems (2002) 10 copies
Coils (1973) 9 copies
Antiphonal Swing: Selected Prose, 1962-1987 (1989) 9 copies
A Sulfur anthology (2016) 9 copies
Grindstone of Rapport: A Clayton Eshleman Reader (Black Widow Press Modern Poetry) (2008) 9 copies
An Alchemist With One Eye on Fire (2006) 9 copies
The Gull Wall (1975) 7 copies
Caterpillar 3/4 (1971) 5 copies
Indiana (1969) 5 copies
Archaic Design (2007) 5 copies
Everwhat (2003) 5 copies
SULFUR [NO. 22] (1988) 5 copies
Anticline (Black Widow Press Modern Poetry) (2010) 5 copies
Altars (1971) 5 copies
What She Means (1978) 5 copies
Sulfur 21 Winter 1988: A Literary Tri Quarterly of The Whole Art (1988) 4 copies
Mexico and North (1971) 4 copies
Caterpillar 7. — Editor — 4 copies
Reciprocal Distillations (2007) 4 copies
Caterpillar: Number 14: January 1971 (Volume 4, Number 2) — Editor — 4 copies
Novices: A Study of Poetic Apprenticeship (1989) 4 copies
Sulfur 7 (1983) 4 copies
Caterpillar 8/9, October 1969 (1969) — Editor — 4 copies
SULFUR [NO. 10] (1984) 3 copies
The aranea constellation (1998) 3 copies
Essential Poetry: 1960-2015 (2015) 3 copies
Caterpillar: No. 12 — Editor — 3 copies
Sulfur 2 : A Literary Tri-Quarterly of the Whole Art (1984) 3 copies
Lachrymae Mateo : 3 poems for Christmas 1966 / Clayton Eshleman. (1967) 3 copies
Nora's Roar (1996) 3 copies
SULFUR NO. 1: A Literary Tri-Quarterly of the Whole Art (1981) 3 copies
The Gospel of Celine Arnauld (Tuumba #12) 2 copies
Sulfur 6 2 copies
Sulfur 43: A Literay Bi-Annual of the Whole Art, Fal 1998 (1998) 2 copies
SULFUR #36 — Editor — 2 copies
Sulfur 33: A Literary Bi-Annual of the Whole Art, Fall 1993 2 copies
An Anatomy of the Night (2011) 2 copies
Sulfur 8: A Literary Tri-Quarterly of the Whole Art (1983) 2 copies
Sulfur 27: A Literary Bi-Annual of the Whole Art, Fall 1990 2 copies
SULFUR [NO. 20] (1987) 2 copies
SULFUR [NO. 9] (1984) 2 copies
Sulfur #26 (1990) 2 copies
Die Friedhöfe des Paradieses: Ausgewählte Gedichte. Edition Lyrik Kabinett bei Hanser (2011) 2 copies
Realignment : poems & an essay (1974) 2 copies
The Price of Experience (2013) 2 copies
Caterpillar 2 copies
Sulfur 29: A Literary Bi-Annual of the Whole Art, Fall 1991 (1991) 2 copies
Erratics 2 copies
SULFUR 23 2 copies
Sulfur 3 2 copies
Brother Stones (1968) 2 copies
CATERPILLAR: NO. 5: OCTOBER 1968 2 copies
Caterpillar 10. — Editor — 2 copies
CATERPILLAR: NO. 13 [OCTOBER 1970] — Editor — 2 copies
Caterpillar: 20 [ Vol. 5 , No. 4 / 1973 ] — Editor — 2 copies
The Lich Gate (1980) 2 copies
Nights we put the rock together (1980) 2 copies
SULFUR 15 (1986) 2 copies
CATERPILLAR: NO. 6: JANUARY 1969 — Editor — 2 copies
Caterpillar 18: Winter 1972 — Editor — 1 copy
Sulfur40: A Literary Bi-Annual of the Whole Art, Spring 1997 1 copy
Sulfur 41: A Literary Bi-Annual of the Whole Art, Fall 1997 1 copy
What she means 1 copy
Pollen Aria (2019) 1 copy
Sulfur 45/46: The Final Issue. 1 copy
Sulfur 39: A Literary Bi-Annual of the Whole Art, Fall 1996 1 copy
Rare Clayton Eshleman / Caterpillar 1-20 Complete Run First Edition 1973 (1973) 1 copy
SULFUR 1 and Sulfur 2 - A Literary tri-quarterly of the Whole Art 1 copy
Yellow river record : [poem] 1 copy
SULFUR #32 (1993) 1 copy
SULFUR #24 1 copy
SULFUR [NO. 4] 1 copy
SULFUR 25 A Literary Bi-Annual of the Whole Art 1 copy
Sulfur 38: A Literary Bi-Annual of the Whole Art, Spring 1996 1 copy
Caterpillar (Issue #15/16) "75 Poems by Stephen Jonas" 1 copy
SULFUR NO. 13 1 copy
SULFUR [NO. 18] 1 copy
Sulfur 37: A Literary Bi-Annual of the Whole Art, Fall 1995 1 copy
Sulfur 35, A Literary Bi-Annual of the Whole Art, Fall 1994 1 copy
Sulfur 34: A Literary Bi-Annual of the Whole Art, Spring 1994 1 copy
Sulfur 32: A Literary Bi-annual of the Whole Art, Spring 1993 1 copy
Sulfur 28,: A Literary Bi-Annual of the Whole Art, Spring 1991 1 copy
Sulfur 19: A Literary Quarterly of the Whole Art, Spring 1987 1 copy
Sulfur 16, A Literary Tri-Quarterly of the Whole Art 1 copy
Sulfur 4 (1982) 1 copy
Sulfur Magazine No. 24 (Spring 1989) 1 copy
Cogollo 1 copy
The Jointure (2012) 1 copy
Sulfur: A Literary Tri-Quarterly of the Whole Art, Number 8 1 copy
SULFUR 12 A Literary Tri-Quarterly of the Whole Art — Editor — 1 copy
Announcing a new literary quarterly, Caterpillar: A magazine of the leaf, a gathering of the tribes 1 copy
SULFUR 31, A LTERARY BI-ANNUAL OF THE WHOLE ART, FALL 1992 1 copy
Sulfur 30 Spring 1992 : A Literary Bi-Annual of the Whole Art 1 copy
The Woman Who Saw Through Paradise (Tansy 2) 1 copy
SULFUR 17 A Literary Tri-Quarterly of the Whole Art 1 copy
Sulfur 14: A Literary Tri-Quarterly of the Whole Art 1 copy
Sulfur 11: The Literary Tri-Quarterly of the Whole Art. 1 copy
SPARROW 18: Aux Morts (1974) — Author — 1 copy
Sulfur 5: A Literary Tri-Quarterly of the Whole Art 1 copy
Caterpillar: 17 [ Vol. 5 , No. 1 / October, 1971 ] — Editor — 1 copy
Caterpillar 15/16 - April/July, 1971 - Vol. IV, ## 3/4 - featuring a Stephen Jonas Retrospective, and Brakhage on… 1 copy
SPARROW 57: Core Meander 1 copy
A note on apprenticeship (Apprenticeship series) 1 copy
NEW AMERICAN WRITING 19 [2001]: Special section on Clark Coollidge; Clayton Eshleman on henry Darger 1 copy
Caterpillar, A Gathering of Tribes: 11 [ Vol. 3 , No. 3 / April 1970 ] — Editor — 1 copy
SPARROW 2: The Sanjo Bridge (1972) 1 copy
The Last Judgment 1 copy
The Original 1939 Notebook of a Return to the Native Land: Bilingual Edition (Wesleyan Poetry Series) 1 copy
Sulfur 1, A Literary Tri-Quarterly of the Whole Art, 1981 1 copy
Nested Dolls (2014) 1 copy
Aux Morts 1 copy
Sulphur: A Literary Tri-Quarterly of the Whole Art 1 copy
Sulfur 9 1 copy
The Chavin illumination 1 copy
Mecha de enebros (2015) 1 copy
Sulfur, A literary bi-annual of the whole art Issue 35, Fall 1994 1 copy
FOETUS GRAFFITI (1981) 1 copy
The Chavin Illuminations 1 copy
The House of Ibuki (1969) 1 copy
Bearings (1971) 1 copy
Visions of the Fathers of Lascaux (1983) 1 copy
Core Meander (1977) 1 copy
Human wedding 1 copy
Reagan at Bitberg 1 copy
Sulfur 44: A Literary Bi-Annual of the Whole Art, Spring 1999 1 copy
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Associated Works

The Complete Poetry (1978) — Translator, some editions — 280 copies
The Best American Poetry 2002 (2002) — Contributor — 180 copies
The Best American Poetry 2005 (2005) — Contributor — 172 copies
Caterpillar 19: Spring 1972 — Contributor — 3 copies
New Directions in Prose and Poetry 33 (2010) — Contributor — 3 copies
Temblor 2 — Contributor — 2 copies
Artaud le Mômo — Translator, some editions — 1 copy
Sarasota Review (2000) — Contributor — 1 copy
Stooge Thirteen, Spring 1975 — Contributor — 1 copy
Journal: The Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, Number 4, February 1975 — Contributor — 1 copy

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Companion Spider: Essays by Clayton Eshleman
In her foreword to this book of essays and critiques, Adrienne Rich refers to Eshleman's "prodigious empathetic capability." Having dipped into this volume but not read every word, I would certainly emphasize the term "prodigious." Eshleman as poet, as artist, as a being, is a wonder, a guide to the underworld, and perhaps an omen.
 
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Reciprocal Distillations by Clayton Eshleman
Reciprocal Distillations is the second book of Eshleman’s own poetry to appear since he published his lifelong translation project of the great Peruvian poet Cesar Vallejo. Each poem in Reciprocal Distillations is written in response to a visual artist, a practice that Eshleman has engaged frequently since his 1967 book Walks. Using a density of image that supplements the act of viewing, whether a Henry Darger panel (“No matter how many carnivores he releases, / the Vivian Girls are trillion in a field.”); or a classic Caravaggio, each poem produces an indelible image of the original. Eshleman’s language in response to the visual is an intense and sometimes playful distillation of experience.… (more)
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