The Story
Eshlemans work is a dazzling attempt to restore mans capacity to understand nature as divine, demonic, and human. Kenneth Warren, American Book ReviewEshlemans is a highly individual poetry, yet one that demonstrates how each of us belongs, not just to our self, but also to those numberless selves whove gone before and to the collective human consciousness that underlies all our thoughts. Here are hymns of praise for the great imagemakers of the late Ice Age and to their modern descendants; here too are tributes to the masterspirits of the poets inner life. From Scratch is a suite of poems, each exploring a station on one poets way toward selfcreation.
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Eshlemans work is a dazzling attempt to restore mans capacity to understand nature as divine, demonic, and human. Kenneth Warren, American Book ReviewEshlemans is a highly individual poetry, yet one that demonstrates how each of us belongs, not just to our self, but also to those numberless selves whove gone before and to the collective human consciousness that underlies all our thoughts. Here are hymns of praise for the great imagemakers of the late Ice Age and to their modern descendants; here too are tributes to the masterspirits of the poets inner life. From Scratch is a suite of poems, each exploring a station on one poets way toward selfcreation.
