BLACK WIDOW PRESS

An Alchemist With One Eye on FireBy Clayton EshlemanBlack Widow Press is pleased to present National Book Award winning poetClayton Eshleman’s fourteenth collection of poems and prose, An AlchemistWith One Eye on Fire. Eshleman’s poetry, essays, and translations have beenpublished in more than 500 literary magazines and periodicals throughout theworld. He continues, as Adrienne Rich has said, “to go more deeply into his art,its processes and demands, than any modern poet since Robert Duncan orMuriel Rukeyser.”

“An Eshleman poem is unmistakeable from first glance. Image jams againstimage, not impressionistically but in service to a passionately argued line of rea-son, a line in which an idea, before completion, turns into another idea, andthen another...”—Eliot Weinberger

ISBN: 0976844958Category: PoetryPrice: $15.95 USFormat: PaperTrim: 6x9Number of Pages: 114Illustrations: 0Carton Quantity: 40Author Resides: Ypsilanti, MI

Recent Titles by Clayton Eshleman: u My Devotion: New Poems, 2004, 1574231928u Companion Spider: Essays, 2002, 0819569834u The Complete Poetry: Cesar Vallejo (trans.),

2006, 0520245520

Sales Materials to support the book:u Finished Books u Covers

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& Writers, and Rain Taxi

Sales Handles:u With over 25 published works, National

Book Award winning author ClaytonEshleman is widely regarded as one of thefinest poets and translators working in theU.S. today.

u Eshleman’s essays, articles, translations,and poetry appear frequently in journalsand newspapers throughout the world.

u Eshleman frequently lectures throughoutthe U.S.A. and Europe.

Audience:u Students and academicsu Modern poetry readers

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