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Hades in Manganese - SAVE 50%!

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by Clayton Eshleman

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Black Sparrow Press

Softcover
ISBN: 978-0-87685-472-3
Pages: 120
Size: 6" x 9"
Published: June 1981
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Inspired by cave art Clayton Eshleman encountered in France, his poetry acts as a journey through his discovery process of what these paintings are to him, as well as a study of prehistory towards the Paleolithic and subsequently a study of Hell, and the Greek Underworld. Eshleman himself says that "By beginning to look at Paleolithic cave art from the viewpoint of the simultaneous psychic organization and disintegration, I hope to be extending our sense of 'gods' and imaginative activity way beyond the Greeks, so that human roots may be seen as growing in a context that does not preclude the animal from a sense of the human."

Clayton Eshleman
Clayton Eshleman was born in Indianapolis and educated at Indiana University. Along with publishing dozens of poetry collections and chapbooks, Eshleman founded and edited the poetry journals Caterpillar and Sulfur. His awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship in Poetry, a National Book Award in Translation, two grants from the NEA, three grants from the NEH, two Landon Translation Prizes from the Academy of American Poets, 13 NEA grants for Sulfur magazine, The Alfonse X. Sabio Award for Excellence in Translation, a Rockefeller Study Center residency in Bellagio, Italy, 2004, and a Hemmingway Translation Grant in 2015. He has lived in Mexico, Japan, Taiwan, Korea, Peru, France, Czechoslovakia, and Hungary, but has called Ypsilanti, Michigan, home since 1986. He is a Professor Emeritus of English at Eastern Michigan University.