Eshleman's newest volume of poetry, following last year's critically acclaimed Grindstone of Rapport: A Clayton Eshleman Reader continues his 40 plus years of exploration of the human psyche and commentating through poetry on human history, politics, superstitions, and culture. A poet who Publishers Weekly said Eshleman is a visionary, divining the world at hand the operation of the primordial energies that have animated human culture from its beginning. (Starred review of Grindstone, Jan. 19, 2009 issue).