New Programs and Residencies:
This fall Clayton Eshleman has the following programs:

September 16: A program on César Vallejo at University of Wisconsin/Madison

October 9/10: A program on Aimé Césaire at the Césaire Conference, New York University

October 16: Poetry Reading at Brookline Booksmith, Boston

October 17: Launch for The Grindstone of Rapport, Black Widow Press, Pierre Menard Gallery, Cambridge, MA

November 20: A program on César Vallejo at Georgetown University,Washington DC

Recent CE Publications:
Reciprocal Distillations (poems on art and artists, with a Foreword by Roberto Tejada), Hot Whiskey Press, Boulder CO, October 2006.

A Shade of Paden (requiem poem for the woodcut artist William Paden), Piedoxen Printers, Hopewell NJ, September 2006.

The Complete Poetry of Cesar Vallejo, with a Foreword by Mario Vargas Llosa (translated by Clayton Eshleman), University of California Press, Berkeley, November 2006.

Deep Thermal (poems and digital prints by Mary Heebner), Simplemente Maria Press, Santa Barbara CA, February 2007.

Archaic Design (Essays, interviews, prose, poems, notes) has recently been published by Black Widow Press in Boston.

Grindstone of Rapport: A Clayton Eshleman Reader. (November, 2008)

A comprehensive survey of Eshleman’s poetry, prose poems, essays, and translations. This one volume edition of Eshleman’s works spans some forty years of exploration and writing on themes as varied as ancient cave paintings and the Paleolithic imagination to critical self-analysis, to viewing modern politics through a poet’s eye. Eshleman and his poetry have remained vibrant and varied throughout his long career. A translator of the first rank, winner of a National Book Award and now two Landon Translation Awards (2008 award winner), Grindstone also allows a reader to see and participate in the breadth of Eshleman’s mastery of translation with examples from his works from the French of Aime Cesaire, Michel Deguy, Artaud, and from the Spanish of Cesar Vallejo and Neruda. With over 30 books to date there was a wealth of materials to choose from. This volume brings a succinct, thought out overview of a writer who has remained outside literary schools and any form of PC thought. A book that will engage, challenge and inspire those who pick it up. (ISBN: 978-0-9795137-7-0. 530 pages. $29.95)

In Praise of The Complete Poetry, César Vallejo, translated and edited by Clayton Eshleman

"An astonishing accomplishment. Eshleman's translation is writhing with energy."--Forrest Gander

"This is a crucially important translation of one of the poetic geniuses of the twentieth century."--William Rowe, author of Poets of Contemporary Latin America: History and the Inner Life.

"Only the dauntless perseverance and the love with which the translator has dedicated so many years of his life to this task can explain why the English version conveys, in all its boldness and vigor, the unmistakable voice of César Vallejo."--from the Foreword by Mario Vargas Llosa

This first translation of the complete poetry of Peruvian César Vallejo (1892-1938) makes available to English speakers one of the greatest achievements of twentieth-century world poetry. Handsomely presented in facing-page Spanish and English, this volume, translated by National Book Award winner Clayton Eshleman, includes the groundbreaking collections The Black Heralds (1918), Trilce (1922), Human Poems (1939), and Spain, Take This Cup from Me (1939).

Vallejo's poetry takes the Spanish language to an unprecedented level of emotional rawness and stretches its grammatical possibilities. Striking against theology with the very rhetoric of the Christian faith, Vallejo's is a tragic vision--perhaps the only one in the canon of Spanish-language literature--in which salvation and sin are one and the same. This edition includes notes on the translation and a fascinating translation memoir that traces Eshleman's long relationship with Vallejo's poetry. An introduction and chronology provide further insights into Vallejo's life and work.

The cover of The Complete Poetry of César Vallejo, A Bilingual Edition. Berkley: California UP, 2006. ISBN: 0520245520

University of California Press web site for The Complete Poetry.

Amazon.com web site for The Complete Poetry.