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<b><u>Clayton Eshleman to Speak on Poetry and Ice Age Art<br>
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On <b>Wednesday, October 6 at 8:00 p.m.</b>, the Russell House
Prose and Poetry Series will present an illustrated talk by <b>Clayton
Eshleman,</b> author of <i>Juniper Fuse, Upper Paleolithic Imagination
and the Construction of the Underworld.</i> Eshleman has studied Ice Age
cave art in southwestern France for thirty years and published thirteen
collections of poetry. He was the recipient of The National Book Award in
1979, the Landon Translation Prize from the Academy of American Poets,
and a Witter Bynner Translation Award. <br>
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Of his work poet Gary Snyder writes "Clayton Eshleman has explored
and inspected almost all of the great cave art of southwestern
Europe&Now with visionary imagination, informed poetic speculation,
deep insight, breathtaking leaps of mind, Eshleman draws out the
underground of myth, psychology, prehistory and the first turn of the
human mind toward the modern."<br>
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This program is co-sponsored by Wesleyan University press. A reception
and book signing will follow.<br>
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ALL RUSSELL HOUSE EVENTS ARE FREE OF CHARGE AND OPEN TO THE
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Nancy Kuhl<br>
Assistant Curator, The Yale Collection of American Literature<br>
The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library<br>
Yale University<br>
121 Wall Street<br>
P.O. Box 208240<br>
New Haven, CT 06520-8240<br>
Phone: 203.432.2966 <br>
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