Nathaniel Tarn's Lyrics for the Bride of God, a book-length poem
composed over the course of five years, represents the author's
most sustained effort since The Beautiful Contradictions (1969).
The Bride, first appearing at the end of that volume, here
dominates the entire work in fulfilling her ultimate kabbalistic
task: the return of the holy sparks, dispersed among mankind at the
creation, to their original Source. In this, the Bride undergoes
exile in the guise of a very human woman--constantly changing
identity, species, race, color, age, and even sex; ranging through
many different mythical and historical settings; raising a host of
political issues from ecology to feminism: and creating, against
Tarn's anthropological background, an astonishing cosmos propelled
by the eternal interaction of male and female. Perhaps the author's
most dramatic work, the Lyrics reflect a time of personal tension
and loss, a time of exile from Europe transformed into a fervent
adoption, on a continental scale, of his new American milieu.
Overall, it is Tarn's expansive, energetic woridview that makes the
work cohere. At a time when so much poetry lacks either head or
heart, Tarn clearly hopes that, in the Lyrics, both have full sway.
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