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, Michel Deguy, Henri Michaux, and Bernard Bador have earned him (and his fellow co-translators in some cases) international acclaim, as testified by a National Book Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, numerous grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities, and two Landon Translation Prizes from the Academy of American Poets. During his career he has published over forty books, including, between 2008 and 2012, three collections of poetry–The Grindstone of Rapport: A Clayton Eshleman Reader, Anticline, and An Anatomy of the Night; and three translations–Curdled Skulls by Bernard Bador, Endure by Bei Dao, with Lucas Klein, and Solar Throat Slashed by Aimé Césaire, with A. James Arnold. In the past decade he has also published three collections of prose–Companion Spider, Archaic Design, and Juniper Fuse: Upper Paleolithic Imagination & the Construction of the Underworld. In 2003 University of California Press published his translation of The Complete Poetry of César Vallejo, on which he spent spent over forty years. In 2012 Black Widow Press will bring out a 400 page compendium of poetry, prose, prose poems, lectures, translations, and journals by Eshleman, spanning 1967 to 2012: The Price of Experience.

The author will be available to sign books after the reading. As always, books will be available for purchase on site.