Reciprocal Distillations

by Eshleman, Clayton

• ISBN13: 9780978693305
• ISBN10: 0978693302
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-03-15
• Publisher: Hot Whiskey Pr

Summary

Poetry. Foreword by Roberto Tejada. "Image density is the salient feature that renders poetic space distinct in Clayton Eshleman's animation of a language that allows for thick terms of concentration and complex shadings. This is to speak ofdegrees that extend back and forth, from comic-strip plain form, in emphatic warps of surface effect, to the half-light and roundedness of things no more than partially disclosed as heretofore sealed inside a cave; and this should come as no surprise from a writer who for over forty years in a commitment to poetry and intellectual life has thought intensely about history and its various objects, counting those we differentiate as art"--Roberto Tejada, from the foreword.

Table of Contents

Witchery	p. 1
Spirits of the head	p. 2
A note on the poem "Spirits of the head"	p. 5
Figure and ground	p. 12
Corot, 1870	p. 14
Michaux, 1956	p. 16
Darger	p. 19
Obstacle breaker	p. 27
Chauvet, left wall of end chamber	p. 28
Some of her names	p. 30
The beheading	p. 33
Radix	p. 39
Joan Mitchell's spinnerets	p. 41
A shade of Paden	p. 45
An arsenal in Seattle	p. 52
Unica Zorn	p. 55
Monumental	p. 58
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