Clayton Eshleman

Ira Clayton Eshleman Jr., in short: Clayton Eshleman ( born June 1, 1935 in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA) is an American poet, translator and editor.

Life

Eshlemann is child of Presbyterian parents from the Midwest of the United States. After his high school graduation in 1953 he began at Indiana University to study music, moving on to his father's advice as a specialist business and began finally to study philosophy. In the study period, from which he graduated with the graduation, he taught himself Spanish in and started for two summer stays in Mexico with the translation of works by the Chilean Pablo Neruda.

In the spring of 1961 he married his first wife Barbara. The couple went to Maryland, where Eshlemman worked as a lecturer in the Far East Branch of the University of Maryland. In the autumn of the same year they went to Tokyo in Japan and moved in spring 1962 to to Kyoto. There she earned her living as an English teacher. During his stay in the years up to 1964 in Kyoto, he began with the translation of 110 poems, wrote in 1923 to 1938 in Paris, the Peruvian poet César Vallejo. To the friends of the couple in Kyoto were among others, Gary Snyder, Cid Corman and the lithographer Will Petersen.

Until 1965, the couple lived again in Bloomington, Indiana, where Eshleman worked on an anthology on Latin American poetry on behalf of the Organization of American States (OAS ), which, however, never appeared. In August, the two went to Lima, Peru, where wanted to take Eshlemann insight into the working papers Vallejos, the custody of the poet 's widow. After the complicated birth of a son and due to the fact that the working papers Vallejos were not made ​​available to him, decided the two to return to the United States. They moved in 1966 to New York City and separated. Both found work at the Institute for American Language, New York University.

Eshleman, in 1967, the literary journal Caterpillar, which was published quarterly until 1970. At the beginning of 1969 he met his second wife, Caryl, who moved a year later with him to Southern California. There, he received a professorship at the School of Critical Studies at the California Institute of the Arts. In the fall of 1973 she went to Paris, where the couple began to issue Eshlemans first poems. In 1974 she discovered for the glacial caves in the Dordogne in southwest France, to which they go still regularly (2012 ). In 1974, she returned to Los Angeles, where Eshleman began at a processing of previously translated poems by him Vallejos and with a translation of Vallejo's poems on the Spanish Civil War.

1980 Eshelman was appointed professor of literature at Eastern Michigan University in Ypsilanti, Michigan. There, the couple bought a house in which it lives even after his retirement. In 1981 Eshelmann the literary magazine Sulfur, which by the year 2000 appeared 46 times. 2011, a band of poems Eshelmans from the period 1974-2010 was first published in German language.

Prizes and awards

Publications

  • Cantaloups and Splendor. Black Sparrow Press, Los Angeles, California, USA in 1968.
  • Altar. Black Sparrow Press, Los Angeles, California, USA 1971, ISBN 0-876850395.
  • Archaic style. Black Widow Press, Boston, Massachusetts, USA 2007, ISBN 978-0-9795137-1-8.
  • José Rubia Barcia with: The Complete Poetry of César Vallejo. University of California Press, Berkeley, California, USA 1980, ISBN 0-520-04099-6.
  • Annette Smith: Aimé Césaire. The Collected Poetry, Translated with an Introduction and Notes by Clayton Eshleman. University of California Press, Berkeley, California, 1983, ISBN 0-520-04347-2.
  • Bernard Bador: Sea Urchin Harakiri, translated and introduced by Clayton Eshleman. Afterword by Robert Kelly. Panjandran Press, Los Angeles, California, 1986, ISBN 0-915572-76-1.
  • Translator and Editor: Conductors of the Pit: Poetry Written " in extremis " in translation. Soft Skull Press, Brooklyn, New York City, USA 2005, ISBN 1-932360-74-3.
  • The cemeteries of paradise. Selected Poems 1974-2010. translated by Jürgen Brocan. Hanser Verlag, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-446-23737-7.
  • Jean -Luc Darbellay: Ground I, 1997 Vocal Music for speaker and alto saxophone. . Tre Media Edition, Karlsruhe 1998.
  • Jean -Luc Darbellay: Gound II, 1997 choral music for soprano, two-part choirs ( SATB / SATB) and 2 pianos. . Tre Media Edition, Karlsruhe 2003.
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