Eshleman, Clayton.

Anticline.

Boston, Black Widow Press, 2010. 22.8cm x 15.3cm. 181 (4) pages. Original illustrated softcover. Small paper-damage. Halftitle signed by the author.

Since the sixties Eshleman has been responding at the deepest threshold of personal arousal to insights from the psychoanalytic era. Drawing on Wilhelm Reich, Sandor Ferenczi, C.G. Jung, Norman O. Brown, Barbara G. Walker and James Hillman, Eshleman belongs to an order of poets for whom millennia, the unconscious, and the depth of shamanic culture yield ‘the agility’ to straddle signifier and soul. With ‘Anticline’ Eshleman hazards a self-making end-time double plunge through living system and dying religion. In other words, ‘Anticline’ is a book of autopoiesis and apocalypse. Within the fiery network of apocalyptic poets that includes William Blake and Cesar Vallejo, Eshleman burns with the radical vision of human form that curves around rock and amplifies underground culture.

• Keywords: American Literature – Rare · American Poetry
• Language: English
• ISBN: 978-0984264063
• Inventory Number: 50235AB

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