From scratch / Clayton Eshleman.

Author/creator Eshleman, Clayton
Other author Black Sparrow Press publisher.
Format Book
Publication InfoSanta Rosa, CA : Black Sparrow Press, 1998.
Description190 pages ; 24 cm
Subjects
American poetry--20th century.

Contents Prolegomena -- Reverberations -- After Reading Ackroyd's Blake -- de Kooning's Woman I -- This Dictionary Is My Father's Book -- The Thing Is, to Remain in Nigredo -- Self-Portrait by a Cameroon Mask -- Mudra -- Intention -- Unleaving -- Nora's Roar -- Nightcrawlers -- Shmatte Variations -- Register's Beyond -- Giverny -- de Kooning's February -- Notes on Exile and Paradise -- House Warming -- Yachats, the Shore -- Less and Less Wholly Absorbed, Aware -- Oy -- Soutine's Lapis -- On a Photograph of Gall -- El Mozote -- Out to Show Them -- At Xochicalco -- All the Only One -- Pit Bull Looped to Cathedral Ironwork -- Liberation Footage -- Gretna Green -- I, Friedrich Schroder-Sonnenstern -- My Evening with Artaud and Othlor -- The Atmosphere, Les Eyzies -- Abri du Cro-Magnon Was Earlier Abri du -- Neandertal Skull -- Pleroma -- Barcarole -- A Phosphene Gauntlet -- Le Combel -- Breccia Creche -- Indeterminate, Open -- Clutches -- de Kooning's Excavation (I) -- de Kooning's Excavation (II) -- Bloodmare -- Immersion -- Norn of Plenty -- Matrix, Blower -- Blues for Byzantium -- Postentry.
General note"This first edition is published in paper wrappers; there are 200 hardcover trade copies; 100 hardcover copies have been numbered & signed by the author; & 20 copies lettered A-T are handbound in boards by Earle Gray each with an original holograph poem/drawing by Clayton Eshleman." --Colophon.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 175-185).
Acquisitions source Joyner Rare copy Purchased from Oak Knoll Books, 1/15/2023
Issued in other formOnline version: Eshleman, Clayton. From scratch. Santa Rosa, CA : Black Sparrow Press, 1998
LCCN 98024441
ISBN1574230727 (signed cloth ; acid-free paper)
ISBN9781574230727 (signed cloth ; acid-free paper)
ISBN1574230700 (pbk. ; acid-free paper)
ISBN9781574230703 (pbk. ; acid-free paper)
ISBN1574230719 (cloth trade ; acid-free paper)
ISBN9781574230710 (cloth trade ; acid-free paper)

Availability

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Joyner Rare Collection PS3555.S5 F75 1998 ✔ Available Request Material