Companion Spider Essays Author:Clayton Eshleman Clayton Eshleman, poet, founder of literary magazines Sulfur and Caterpillar, and translator of Aime Cesaire, Antonin Artaud and Cesar Vallejo, has authored a collection of essays on the reading and writing of poetry, Companion Spider. In it, Eshleman parses works by Lorca, Artaud and Cesaire. He argues for a system of apprenticeship for young p... more »oets, and he excoriates The Norton Anthology of Poetry for its neglect of Objectivist and Language poets.