[Wgcp-whc] Fwd: Clayton Eshleman Talk

[Nancy Kuhl]

>Clayton Eshleman to Speak on Poetry and Ice Age Art
>
>  On Wednesday, October 6 at 8:00 p.m., the Russell House Prose and Poetry 
> Series will present an illustrated talk by Clayton Eshleman, author of 
> Juniper Fuse, Upper Paleolithic Imagination and the Construction of the 
> Underworld. 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.
>
>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."
>
>This program is co-sponsored by Wesleyan University press. A reception and 
>book signing will follow.
>
>ALL RUSSELL HOUSE  EVENTS ARE FREE OF CHARGE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.

Nancy Kuhl
Assistant Curator, The Yale Collection of American Literature
The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Yale University
121 Wall Street
P.O. Box 208240
New Haven, CT 06520-8240
Phone: 203.432.2966
Fax: 203.432.4047
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