Coils

by Clayton Eshleman

Paperback in good condition. From the collection of Michael Stephen Cleary, (d. 02.07.2023), former lecturer at Kingsway College and SOAS, University of London. Ownership penned to free paper. General shelf and handling wear; notable tanning to cover and pageblock, with occasional blemish, and light creasing to edges and corners. Content is in fine condition, pages tightly bound, text unmarked. CN

147 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 1975

About the author

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 Taggart. He is now Professor Emeritus at Eastern Michigan University.