Rene Char (1907-1988) was one of France's most respected 20th century poets. Part of the Surrealist group in the late 1920's-1930's, he gradually drifted away from the group. During WWII he joined the
A new book of poems after the release last year of his monumental collected poetry collection: The Essential Poems (1960-2015). The world embraced by Eshleman's poetry is our world. As a contemporary
What we have here is a poet who dances with angels and/or jazz masters. When you say his words out loud you hear the syllabled beats of a rhythm master. Far too few contemporary poets are as profound
From National Book Award winning poet/author Clayton Eshleman a wide ranging new book of poetry, prose poems, and essays. Spanning subjects from the writer's craft to poetic musings on art, this colle
The siren call of Storyville...New Orleans, 1914. No one cares much when a street whore is the victim of a bloody murder. Nor when a woman in a crib on the dirty back end of the red light district is
