Clayton Eshleman

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Clayton Eshleman


Born
in Indianapolis, IN, The United States
June 01, 1935

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Eshleman is an American poet, translator, and editor.

Eshleman has been translating since the early 1960s. He and José Rubia Barcia jointly prepared The Complete Posthumous Poetry of César Vallejo (1978) and won the U.S. National Book Awardin category Translation. He has also translated books by Aimé Césaire (with Annette Smith), Pablo Neruda, Antonin Artaud, Vladimir Holan, Michel Deguy and Bernard Bador.

Eshleman founded and edited two of the most seminal and highly-regarded literary magazines of the period, Caterpillar and Sulfur.

Sometimes he is mentioned in the company of the "ethno-poeticists" associated with Jerome Rothenberg, including: Armand Schwerner, Rochelle Owens, Kenneth Irby, Robert Kelly, Jed Rasula, Gustaf Sobin, and John Ta
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Average rating: 4.3 · 4,377 ratings · 362 reviews · 161 distinct works
Juniper Fuse: Upper Paleoli...

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Conductors of the Pit: Arta...

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Grindstone of Rapport: A Cl...

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The Name Encanyoned River: ...

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Companion Spider: Essays

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An Alchemist With One Eye O...

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A Sulfur Anthology

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Hotel Cro-Magnon

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Hades in Manganese

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Reciprocal Distillations

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