The title of this book comes from a hotel in the town of Les Eyzies in the French Dordogne, where the greatest concentration of Upper Paleolithic decorated shelters and caves are found. In 1868, in the Les Ayzies rock shelter called Abri de Cro-Magnon ("Cro-Magnon" meaning "big hole" in the local patois), the first skeletons of our direct ancestors were discovered. The shelter, now scoured of its holdings, can still be visited; it is part of the rockwall that undulates as the spinal backdrop of Les Eylzies; one section of ...
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The title of this book comes from a hotel in the town of Les Eyzies in the French Dordogne, where the greatest concentration of Upper Paleolithic decorated shelters and caves are found. In 1868, in the Les Ayzies rock shelter called Abri de Cro-Magnon ("Cro-Magnon" meaning "big hole" in the local patois), the first skeletons of our direct ancestors were discovered. The shelter, now scoured of its holdings, can still be visited; it is part of the rockwall that undulates as the spinal backdrop of Les Eylzies; one section of the wall serves as the back wall of Hotel Cro-Magnon. The hotel can thus be thought of as the social outgrowth of our discovery of who we are. The poetics of Hotel Cro-Magnon are based on the belief that there is an archetypal poem, and that its most ancient design is probably the labyrinth. The first words of a poem, from this viewpoint, propose and nose toward a confrontation with what the writer is only partially aware of, or may not be prepared to address until it emerges, flushed forth by meanders and dead-ends. Poetry twists toward the unknown and seeks to realize something beyond the poet's initial awareness.
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Add this copy of Hotel Cro-Magnon to cart. $10.37, good condition, Sold by Bookmans rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Tucson, AZ, UNITED STATES, published 1989 by Black Sparrow Pr.
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Fine in Fine dust jacket. Limited Edition, signed/numbered copy #94/150. A very collectible copy by this Michigan poet. First printing. 161 p. : 1 port. ; 24 cm. Signed by author. Poems. "This edition is published in paper wrappers; there are 300 hardcover trade copies; 150 copies have been numbered & signed by the author; & 26 lettered copies have been handbound in boards by Earle Gray each with a holograph poem/drawing by ClaytonEshleman"--Colophon. LC has copy no. 5 of the hardcover trade ed.
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Fine in fine dust jacket. Signed by author. 161 pg. Sewn binding. Pictorial boards. Acetate dust jacket. Book is straight with tight binding and clean text. Numbered and signed on colophon by Clayton Eshleman. #125 of 150 copies printed.
