Companion Spider

by Eshleman, Clayton; Rich, Adrienne Cecile

• ISBN13: 9780819564825
• ISBN10: 0819564826
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-01-31
• Publisher: Wesleyan Univ Pr

Summary

The accumulated work of one of our most admired & controversial poets & translators who goes more deeply into the art & its process & demands than anyone since Robert Duncan.

Table of Contents

Foreword	ix
Adrienne Rich
I
Novices: A Study of Poetic Apprenticeship	3	(76)
II
The Gull Wall	79	(14)
Remarks to a Poetry Workshop	93	(6)
The Lorca Working	99	(18)
Companion Spider	117	(14)
III
At the Locks of the Void: Contranslating Aime Cesaire	131	(16)
A Tribute to Americo Ferrari	147	(6)
A Translational Understanding of Trilce #I	153	(8)
Introduction to Watchfiends & Rack Screams	161	(34)
Artaud's True Family, Glimpsed at Pompidou	195	(8)
IV
A Note on the Death of Paul Celan	203	(4)
Two Introductions: Gary Snyder and Michael Palmer	207	(4)
Padgett the Collaborator	211	(11)
Spider Sibyls	222	(9)
V
The Gospel According to Norton	231	(16)
Complexities of Witness	247	(15)
``What Is American About American Poetry?''	262	(4)
The Lawless Germinal Element	266	(4)
Introduction to the Final Issue of Sulfur Magazine	270	(11)
VI
From an Interview with Duane Davis for Waste Paper (1993)	281	(11)
From an Interview with William Harmer for Agenda (1994)	292	(3)
From an Interview with Keith Tuma for Contemporary Literature (1996)	295	(22)
Medusa Dossier: Clayton Eshleman (1999)	317