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"Morphologies of Paradise" is from a manuscript called "My Devotion" to be published as a Black Sparrow/David Godine book in June 2003. Other recent books by Clayton Eshleman are: Companion Spider, with a Foreword by Adrienne Rich, 2002; a co-translation of Aimé Césaire's Notebook of a Return to the Native Land, 2001; and a translation of Cesar Vallejo's Trilce, 2000 (all published by Wesleyan University Press). In 2003 Wesleyan will bring out Eshleman's "Juniper Fuse: Upper Paleolithic Imagination & the Construction of the Underworld," based on a research project of twenty-five years. Eshleman is a professor in the English Department at Eastern Michigan University in Ypsilanti.

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Morphologies of Paradise