Clayton Eshleman

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

Life

Eshlemann is a child of Presbyterian parents from the American Midwest . After graduating from high school in 1953, he began studying music at Indiana University , then switched to economics on his father's advice, and finally began studying philosophy there. During his studies, which he completed with a graduation, he taught himself Spanish and began translating works by the Chilean Pablo Neruda during two summer stays in Mexico .

In spring 1961 he married his first wife Barbara. The couple went to Maryland , where Eshlemman worked as a lecturer in the Far East Department of the University of Maryland . In the fall of the same year they went to Tokyo , Japan, and in the spring of 1962 they moved to Kyoto . There they earned their living teaching English. During his stay in Kyoto until 1964, he began translating the 110 poems that the Peruvian poet César Vallejo wrote in Paris between 1923 and 1938 . The couple's circle of friends in Kyoto included Gary Snyder , Cid Corman and the lithographer Will Petersen .

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

Eshleman founded the literary magazine Caterpillar in 1967 , which appeared quarterly until 1970. At the beginning of 1969 he met his future second wife Caryl, who moved with him to Southern California a year later . There he had received a call to the School of Critical Studies at the California Institute of the Arts . In the autumn of 1973 they went to Paris, where the couple began editing Eshleman's first poems. In 1974 they discovered the ice age caves of the Dordogne in southwest France , to which they still go regularly (2012). In 1974 they returned to Los Angeles , where Eshleman began to work on an adaptation of Vallejo's poems he had previously translated and a translation of Vallejo's poems on the Spanish Civil War .

In 1980 Eshelman was appointed professor of literature at Eastern Michigan University in Ypsilanti , Michigan . There the couple bought a house in which they will still live after their retirement . In 1981 Eshelmann founded the literary magazine Sulfur , which appeared 46 times by 2000. In 2011, a volume of Eshelman's poems from 1974 to 2010 was published in German for the first time.

Prizes and awards

Publications

  • Mexico and North . Private printing. Tokyo 1962.
  • Cantaloups and Splendor . Black Sparrow Press, Los Angeles, California, USA 1968.
  • Altars . Black Sparrow Press, Los Angeles, California, USA 1971, ISBN 0-876850395 .
  • An Alchemist with One Eye on Fire. Black Widow Press, Boston, Mass., USA 2006, ISBN 0-9768449-5-8 .
  • Archaic design . Black Widow Press, Boston, Massachusetts, USA 2007, ISBN 978-0-9795137-1-8 .
Translations
  • with José Rubia Barcia: The Complete Poetry of César Vallejo. University of California Press, Berkeley, California, USA 1980, ISBN 0-520-04099-6 .
  • with 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 publisher: Conductors of the Pit: Poetry Written “in extremis” in Translation . Soft Skull Press, Brooklyn, New York City, USA 2005, ISBN 1-932360-74-3 .
in German language
Texts for choral and vocal music
  • 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 divided choirs (SATB / SATB) and 2 pianos. Tre Media Edition, Karlsruhe 2003.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Neolithic paradise . In: FAZ . of January 3, 2012, p. 28.
personal data
SURNAME Eshleman, Clayton
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Eshleman Jr., Ira Clayton (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American poet, translator, editor, and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH June 1, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Indianapolis , Indiana , USA