The price of experience

Description

"\"Clayton Eshleman's The Price of Experience-the title comes from \"Night Two\" of William Blake's The Four Zoas-is a literary anatomy, including two long poems (\"The Moistinsplendor\" and \"An Anatomy of the Night\"); three New York City stories; a journal kept during a 1985 trip to Brittany; essays on Paul Blackburn, César Vallejo, Pierre Joris and Aimé Césaire; reviews of works by Lee Hickman, Charles Olson, Chaim Soutine, and Leon Golub; eleven lectures on the Upper Paleolithic painted caves of southwestern France; notes on Carolee Schneemann, aprenticehood, the Medusa, and Rodin; four interviews and a conversation with Robert Kelly; prose poems inspired by the work of Daumier and Laura Solorzano; and \"Erratics,\" a collection of sightings, aphorisms, tiny poems, quotations, gists and piths.\"--Publisher's website."

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Series Statement

• Black Widow Press modern poetry series