Combarelles

BY Clayton Eshleman

The horse showing through
the cave wall showing through the horse. Goal
of engraving:
to arrive
As reciprocity.

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A limestone lightning rod for the new mind’s animal-
flashing borderless rinks, in-bordered
with a line
scraped between me
and the thee of cosmic indivisibility.

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The fine sand of creature life poured through the mind’s riven mesh.

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In the jigsaw puzzle of creation, the desire is not
to just fit, but to allow, through
sudden aperture,
the hiss of the shuddering other.

[Les Eyzies, 2007]

— FROM Anticline (Black Widow Press, 2010)

 

Biography

CLAYTON ESHLEMAN‘s poems, critical essays, and translations of poets as important and diverse as César Vallejo, Aimé Césaire, Pablo Neruda, Antonin Artaud, Vladimir Holan, Henri Michaux, and Bernard Bador have earned him international acclaim. Also the founder and editor of two literary journals, Caterpillar (1967-1973) and Sulfur (1981-2000), he has published over forty books, including, most recently, three books of poetry — Anticline (Black Widow Press, 2010), Reciprocal Distillations (Hot Whiskey Press, 2007) and An Alchemist with One Eye on Fire (Black Widow Press, 2006); three translations — Aimé Césaire’s Notebook of a Return to the Native Land (Wesleyan University Press, 2001) and Conductors of the Pit (Soft Skull Press, 2005), as well as The Complete Poetry of César Vallejo (University of California Press, 2006); and three books of prose — Companion Spider (Wesleyan University Press, 2002), Archaic Design (Black Widow Press, 2007) and Juniper Fuse: Upper Paleolithic Imagination & the Construction of the Underworld (Wesleyan University Press, 2007). Professor Emeritus at Eastern Michigan University, he lives in Ypsilanti, Michigan, with his wife Caryl. For several decades, they have led yearly tours to the Ice Age painted caves of southwestern France.

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