"Eshleman's work is a dazzling attempt to restore man's capacity to understand nature as divine, demonic, and human." --Kenneth Warren, American Book Review
Eshleman's 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 who've gone before and to the collective human consciousness that underlies all our thoughts. Here are hymns of praise for the great image-makers of the late Ice Age and to their modern descendants; here too are tributes to the master-spirits of the poet's inner life. From Scratch is a suite of poems, each exploring a station on one poet's way toward self-creation.
- ISBN10 1574230719
- ISBN13 9781574230710
- Publish Date 1 December 1998 (first published 1 June 1998)
- Publish Status Transferred
- Out of Print 27 January 2021
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher David R. Godine Publisher Inc
- Imprint Black Sparrow Press,U.S.
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 200
- Language English