Clayton Eshleman

Born: 06/01/1935   Indianapolis
Parents: Ira Clayton and Gladys Eshleman
Spouse: Barbara (1st), Caryl (2nd)
Children: Matthew
Address(es):
Permanent :
210 Washtenaw Ave.
Ypsilanti , MI 48197
Contact Information:
Email : [email protected]
Phone : 734-483-9787
Website : http://www.claytoneshleman.com/

Writings

Image Title Genre Audience Publisher Date
The Complete Poetry of Aimé Césaire
- 900 page bilingual edition co-translated with A. James Arnold.
Poetry Adult Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press 2016
Clayton Eshleman / The Essential Poetry 1960-2015 Poetry Adult Boston MA : Black Widow Press 2015
A Sulfur anthology / edited by Clayton Eshleman. Poetry Adult Middletown, Connecticut : Wesleyan University Press 2015
Clayton Eshleman / The Whole Art
- an anthology of essays on Eshleman’s work over the decades, edited by Stuart Kendall
Non Fiction Adult Boston, MA : Black Widow Press 2014
The price of experience
- Collected poems and essays.
Poetry Adult Boston, MA : Black Widow Press 2012
An anatomy of the night Poetry Adult Buffalo, NY : BlazeVOX Books 2011
Solar throat slashed : the unexpurgated 1948 edition / Aime ´Cesaire
- translated and edited by A. James Arnold and Clayton Eshleman.
Poetry Adult Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press 2011
Anticline Poetry Adult Boston, MA : Black Widow Press 2010
Reciprocal distillations Poetry Adult Boulder, Colo. : Hot Whiskey Press 2007
An alchemist with one eye on fire Poetry Adult Boston, Mass. : Black Widow Press 2006
My devotion Poetry Adult Boston : David R. Godine 2004
Juniper fuse : upper paleolithic imagination & the construction of the underworld Poetry Adult Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press 2003
Campanion Spider : essays
- Essays with a forward by Adrienne Rich
Non Fiction Adult Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press 2002
Notebook of a Return to the Native Land by Aime Cesaire
- Translator
Poetry Adult Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Pres 2001
Erratics Poetry Adult Hunger Press 2000
Jisei Backwoods Broadsides 2000
From Scratch Poetry Adult Santa Rosa, CA : Black Sparrow Press 1998
Nora's Roar
- In memory of Nora Jaffe (1928-1994)
Poetry Adult Boulder, Colo. : Rodent Press 1996
Trilce by Cesar Vallejo
- Translator (Publication Years: 1992, 2000)
Poetry Adult New York : Marsilio : Distributed in the U.S.A. by Rizzoli International Publications 1992
Lyric and Dramatic Poetry, 1946-1982 by Aime Cesaire
- Translator
Poetry Adult Charlottesville : University Press of Virginia 1990
Antiphonal Swing : Selected Prose 1962-1987
- Edited by Caryl Eshleman
Non Fiction Adult Kingston, NY : McPherson 1989
Conductors of the Pit: Major Works of Rimbaud, Vallejo, Cesaire, Artaud, and Holan
- translated, edited, and introduced by Clayton Eshleman, with co-translations by Annette Smith and Frantisek Galan.
Poetry Adult New York : Paragon House 1988
The Name Encanyoned River: Selected Poems 1960-1985
- Poems explore the author's experiences and a variety of themes including birth, death, and jazz
Poetry Adult Santa Barbara : Black Sparrow Press 1986
Nights We Put the Rock Togeher Poetry Adult Santa Barbara, Calif. : Cadmus Editions 1980
Portrait of Francis Bacon Rivelin 1975
Letter to Andre Breton by Antonin Artaud
- Translator
Poetry Adult Los Angeles, Black Sparrow Press 1974
The Last Judgment : For Caryl Her Thirty-First Birthday, for the End of Her Pain Poetry Adult Plantin 1973
Altars Poetry Adult Los Angeles, Black Sparrow Press 1971
A Caterpillar Anthology; a selection of poetry and prose from Caterpillar magazine.
- Editor
Fiction , Non Fiction , Poetry Adult Garden City, N.Y. : Anchor Books 1971
The House of Okumura Poetry Adult Toronto, Weed/flower Pres 1969
Indiana; poems Poetry Adult Los Angeles, Black Sparrow Press 1969
Cantaloups & splendor Poetry Adult Los Angeles, Black Sparrow Press 1968
Seven Poems by Cesar Vallejo
- Translator
Poetry Adult R. Morris 1967
State of the Union by Aime Cesaire
- Translator
Poetry Adult Caterpillar Press 1966
Other writings:
- Contributor of poetry, esays, reviews and translations to periodicals and anthologies
What is the aim or goal of your writing: CA says, "I began to write when I was about 23 years old, at the same time I began to read seriously, so there has always been a constant overlapping between reading and writing, almost as if they are sides of the same coin who center, or gravity, is experience--my experience which, as all others, in my opinion, is resolutely personal. I write mainly to understand what is happening to me and others, and to express relation or the lack of it." "As for aspiring writers; believe, I say to you, in apprenticeship. Pick some mature writer or artist and force yourself to know all of his work, from beginning to end, and attempt to assimilate it, and understand why it has the power that it does to move you."

May inquiries be sent to you about doing workshops, readings: No

Donated books to the Authors & Illustrators database project: No

Skills:
Author
Poet
Other - Translator

Education:

Degree Institution Location Date
Columbia School of Journalism New York , NY

Career:

Position Organization Location Date
Professor of English
- Now Professor Emeritus, English Department
Eastern Michigan University Ypsilanti , MI 1986 -2003
Founder and Editor Sulfur (Magazine) 1981 -2000
Instructor American Language Institute, New York University New York , NY 1966 -1968
Publisher and Editor
-  (1966-1968, 1967-1973)
Caterpillar Books and Caterpillar Magazine 1966
English language and writing instructor Matsushita Electric Corporation KobeJapan 1962 -1964
Instructor in English University of Maryland College Park 1961 -1962
Editor Folio Magazine 1959 -1960
Has given poetry reading of his own works and of translations at over 400 schools and universities
Vising Professor and Poet in Residence
- 1970s and 1980s and 1990s

Other Resources:

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