Eshleman Poetry

"Notes on a Visit to Le Tuc D'Audoubert" (PDF)

"Like Violets, He Said" (PDF)

"Matrix, Blower" (PDF)
From Juniper Fuse, Wesleyan UP, 2003

"Deeds Done and Suffered by Light" (PDF)
From The Name Encanyoned River: Selected Poems 1960-1985, Black Sparrow Press, 1986.

See also the Eshleman's entry on the Electronic Poetry Center web site at http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/eshleman/. The site includes several Eshleman poems, including"Hardball," "Cooking," "Blues for Byzantium," and "de Kooning's Woman I," and it also features Eshleman reading from the translation (with Annette Smith) of Aimé Césaire's Notebook of a Return to the Native Land (Wesleyan University Press) at the Mad Alex series in New York on March 8, 2001.