Clayton Eshleman
Clayton Eshleman (1935-2021) was the author of over one hundred books, and the major American translator of Aimé Césaire, as well as César Vallejo and Antonin Artaud. He is the author of The Grindstone of Rapport / A Clayton Eshleman Reader and translator of The Complete Poetry of César Vallejo. Eshleman has received a National Book Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, numerous grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities, two Landon Translation Prizes from the Academy of American Poets, and a Hemingway Translation Grant. In 1994, he was a fellow at the Rockefeller Study Center in Bellagio, Italy, where he wrote a 50-page poem on Hieronymus Bosch's The Garden of Earthly Delights. He is a professor emeritus at Eastern Michigan University.