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Companion Spider (Paperback)
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Companion Spider is the accumulated work of a poet and translator
who goes more deeply into the art and its process and demands than
anyone since Robert Duncan. Clayton Eshleman is one of our most
admired and controversial poets, the translator of such great
international poets as Cesar Vallejo, Aime Cesaire and Antonin
Artaud, and founder and editor of two important literary magazines,
Sulfur and Caterpillar. As such, Eshleman writes about the vocation
of poet and of the poet as translator as no one else in America
today; he believes adamantly that art must concern itself with
vision, and that poets learn best by an apprenticeship that is a
kind of immersion in the work of other poets.
Companion Spider opens with a unique eighty page essay called
"Novices: A Study of Poetic Apprenticeship" addressed to the poet
who is just starting out. Subsequent sections take up the art of
translation, poets and their work, and literary magazine editing.
The title is drawn from an extraordinary visionary experience which
the author had, which becomes a potent metaphor for the creative
process. Through the variety of poets and artists to whom he pays
homage, Eshleman suggests a community which is not of a single
place or time; rather, there is mutual recognition and
responsiveness, so that the reader becomes aware of a range of
artistic practices s/he might explore
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