Companion spider : essays / Clayton Eshleman ; foreword by Adrienne Rich.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Eshleman, Clayton.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Translating and interpreting.

Poetry--Translating.

Poetry.

Eshleman, Clayton--Aesthetics.

Eshleman, Clayton.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (346 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press, c2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A penetrating exploration of poetic life by a veteran poet, translator, and editor.

Contents:

Contents; Foreword; I; Novices: A Study of Poetic Apprenticeship; II; The Gull Wall; Remarks to a Poetry Workshop; The Lorca Working; Companion Spider; III; At the Locks of the Void: Cotranslating Aimé Césaire; A Tribute to Américo Ferrari; A Translational Understanding of Trilce #I; Introduction to Watchfiends & Rack Screams; Artaud's True Family, Glimpsed at Pompidou; IV; A Note on the Death of Paul Celan; Two Introductions: Gary Snyder and Michael Palmer; Padgett the Collaborator; Spider Sibyls; V; The Gospel According to Norton; Complexities of Witness

"What Is American About American Poetry?"The Lawless Germinal Element; Introduction to the Final Issue of Sulfur Magazine; VI; From an Interview with Duane Davis for Waste Paper (1993); From an Interview with William Harmer for Agenda (1994); From an Interview with Keith Tuma for Contemporary Literature (1996); Medusa Dossier: Clayton Eshleman (1999)

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1-283-10165-3

9786613101655

0-8195-7058-3

OCLC:

728274327