Companion Spider
Clayton Eshleman, Clayton Eshelman. Wesleyan University Press, $26.95 (352pp) ISBN 978-0-8195-6483-2
Clayton Eshleman, poet, founder of literary magazines Sulfur and Caterpillar, and translator of Aim C saire, Antonin Artaud and Cesar Vallejo, has authored a collection of essays on the reading and writing of poetry, Companion Spider. In it, Eshleman parses works by Lorca, Artaud and C saire. He argues for a system of apprenticeship for young poets, and he excoriates The Norton Anthology of Poetry for its neglect of Objectivist and Language poets. With a foreword by Adrienne Rich. (Jan.)
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Reviewed on: 02/01/2002
Genre: Nonfiction
Library Binding - 352 pages - 978-0-8195-6482-5
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