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Each hymn in Nathaniel Tarn's new collection The Hoelderliniae is a
love song to the Poet of Poets, Friedrich Hoelderlin?- the German
Romantic poet-philosopher who spent the last thirty-six years of
his life sequestered in a carpenter's tower in the south of
Germany. Tarn speaks through Hoelderlin and Hoelderlin speaks
through Tarn in an act of spiritual and lyric possession unlike
anything else in contemporary poetry. The French Revolution-which
Hoelderlin supported passionately until the Reign of
Terror-illuminates our war-torn, ecologically precarious age, as
the failures of our age recall past tragedies. Line after line
carries Hoelderlin's hope in an ideal of a poetry that can englobe
all the mind's disciplines and make a universe of its own.
Over the course of his long career, Nathaniel Tarn has been a poet,
anthropologist, and book editor, while his travels have taken him
into every continent. Born in France, raised in England, and
earning a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, he knew Andre
Breton, Salvador Dali, Marcel Duchamp, Margot Fonteyn, Charles
Olson, Claude Levi-Strauss, and many more of the twentieth
century's major artists and intellectuals. In Atlantis, an
Autoanthropology he writes that he has "never (yet) been able to
experience the sensation of being only one person." Throughout this
literary memoir and autoethnography, Tarn captures this
multiplicity and reaches for the uncertainties of a life lived in a
dizzying array of times, cultures, and environments. Drawing on his
practice as an anthropologist, he takes himself as a subject of
study, examining the shape of a life devoted to the study of the
whole of human culture. Atlantis, an Autoanthropology prompts us to
consider our own multiple selves and the mysteries contained
within.
In The Persephones, American poet Nathaniel Tarn (born 1928) and
American photographer Joan Myers (born 1941) offer an elegant,
collaborative retelling of Persephone's abduction into the
underworld. Many of Myers' images were shot at the sites from which
the myth originated. Edition of 500 copies.
This book has two main subjects which are interwoven: the attitudes
of selected poets (including Neruda, Rilke, Breton, Celan, and
Artaud) to the "primitive" and the "archaic," studied from an
anthropologist's viewpoint; and a model of the processes whereby
poetry is produced and received, built on the author's successful
careers as both poet and anthropologist. The book includes detailed
biographical information about how Tarn went from being a French to
an English to an American poet. It also reveals the effect of a
double career and of these moves on a unique body of poetry and
theoretical work. An extremely substantial interview, serving also
as an introduction to, and discussion of, the essays, demonstrates
that there is nothing like this work to be found elsewhere.
Over the course of his long career, Nathaniel Tarn has been a poet,
anthropologist, and book editor, while his travels have taken him
into every continent. Born in France, raised in England, and
earning a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, he knew Andre
Breton, Salvador Dali, Marcel Duchamp, Margot Fonteyn, Charles
Olson, Claude Levi-Strauss, and many more of the twentieth
century's major artists and intellectuals. In Atlantis, an
Autoanthropology he writes that he has "never (yet) been able to
experience the sensation of being only one person." Throughout this
literary memoir and autoethnography, Tarn captures this
multiplicity and reaches for the uncertainties of a life lived in a
dizzying array of times, cultures, and environments. Drawing on his
practice as an anthropologist, he takes himself as a subject of
study, examining the shape of a life devoted to the study of the
whole of human culture. Atlantis, an Autoanthropology prompts us to
consider our own multiple selves and the mysteries contained
within.
Gondwana: an ancient supercontinent long-dispersed into fragments
in the Southern Hemisphere. Contemplating this once-massive
landmass at the the end of the world while looking out at the
ethereal blue ice of Antarctica, Nathaniel Tarn writes: "They said
back then / there was a frozen continent / in those high latitudes
encircling the globe: /are you moving toward it?" The various parts
of Gondwana cohere into a unified whole that celebrates bird
flight, waves, and innervating light while warning against
environmental calamity. Some poems celebrate the New Mexican desert
as it becomes a place of protest against the invasion of
Afghanistan; in another, the rising and falling stairs at Fez in
Morocco meld into a meditation on marriage, empire, and the origins
of climbing. Elsewhere the heroic fighter pilot Lydia Litvyak is
personified as Eurydice speaking to her Captain as Orpheus; and in
the final long section, "Exitus Generis Humani," lines pour over
the reader in slow, mournful, yet often humorous, song, revealing
"the poets' hearts are a world's heart" as the human race ends and
whole armies sink into the earth "yearning for mother love."
Celebrated as a poet where "inquiry and ethical action are
imperative" (Joseph Donahue, Jacket2), Nathaniel Tarn has lifted up
a mind-heart mirror of our contemporary existence in Gondwana and
warns us of a definitive ending if we do not demand radical change.
The perfect gift for Valentine's Day Selected Poems contains
Neruda's resonant, exploratory, intensely individualistic verse,
rooted in the physical landscape and people of Chile. Here we find
sensuous songs of love, tender odes to the sea, melancholy lyrics
of heartache, fiery political statements and a frank celebration of
sex. This is an enticing, distinctive and celebrated collection of
poetry from the greatest twentieth century Latin American poet.
This book has two main subjects which are interwoven: the attitudes
of selected poets (including Neruda, Rilke, Breton, Celan, and
Artaud) to the "primitive" and the "archaic," studied from an
anthropologist's viewpoint; and a model of the processes whereby
poetry is produced and received, built on the author's successful
careers as both poet and anthropologist. The book includes detailed
biographical information about how Tarn went from being a French to
an English to an American poet. It also reveals the effect of a
double career and of these moves on a unique body of poetry and
theoretical work. An extremely substantial interview, serving also
as an introduction to, and discussion of, the essays, demonstrates
that there is nothing like this work to be found elsewhere.
Palenque was first published jointly by Shearsman Books and Oasis
Books in 1986, and sought to offer British readers an overview of
what the poet had been up to since his expatriation to the USA in
the early 70s. This book is revived here as part of the Shearsman
Library series, which is devoted to recovering significant
out-of-print, or hard-to-find editions of modern poetry.
A Nowhere for Vallejo was first published in New York in 1971, and
in London in 1972, with the material collected in it dating back to
1969. A major staging post in the author’s career, it remains one
of Nathaniel Tarn’s most significant publications from the 1970s.
The dramatic title sequence takes the form of an imaginary journey
to the Inca empire, seen through the eyes of the first and last of
the Inca emperors and of two great half-Inca writers, both exiles:
Garcilaso de la Vega and César Vallejo. This sequence and
‘Choices’ were written in Guatemala during the summer of 1969
by Lake Atitlán where the author had carried out fieldwork as an
anthropologist many years earlier. The book is completed by the
‘October’ sequence, which ends with the moving in memoriam poem
‘Requiem pro duabus filiis Israel’.
At the Western Gates was first published by a small press in New
Mexico in 1985, and consisted of five powerful long poems that
exemplify the best of Nathaniel Tarn's work in the late 1970s and
early 1980s. In this new edition, they are joined by another long
sequence, `Birdscapes with Seaside', originally a one-off issue of
Sparrow magazine in 1976, which fits well with the rest of the
contents. This book is revived here as part of the Shearsman
Library series, which is devoted to recovering significant
out-of-print, or hard-to-find editions of modern poetry
The Desert Mothers was first published by a small press in
Mississippi in 1984, and contained several important poems from
Nathaniel Tarn's early '80s period. This new edition revives the
original chapbook, adding to it three other long sequences from the
same period, as part of the Shearsman Library series, which is
devoted to recovering significant out-of-print, or hard-to-find
editions of modern poetry.
The House of Leaves was first published by Black Sparrow Press in
Santa Barbara in 1976, and was a significant statement of intent by
Nathaniel Tarn - alongside his New Directions volume, Lyrics for
the Bride of God - which set the tone for what he wanted to achieve
now as an American poet after his emigration from England. This new
edition repeats the entire original volume and is revived here as
part of the Shearsman Library series, which is devoted to
recovering significant out-of-print, or hard-to-find editions of
modern poetry.
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Alashka (Paperback)
Nathaniel Tarn, Janet Rodney
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Alashka is a lost book. It was first published as half of a very
large, well-printed volume in 1979, spliced together with Tarn's
Selected Poems up until that point. The publisher was a new outfit
in Boulder, Colorado, called Brillig Works and born in an eponymous
bookstore. Distribution was limited, and fitful, and copies were
notoriously hard to come by. This ensured that what was, in effect,
Janet Rodney's first collection, vanished from view. Also, although
it was a valuable expansion of Tarn's anthro- and eco-poetics, this
hardly registered in the wider world, whether in Alaska or in the
lower states. The book finally gets its own set of covers here, and
a chance to find its own niche, and will soon be joined by some
other long-out-of-print Tarn volumes. Although some 40 years old,
this book has scarcely aged, and its themes are as apposite today
as they were in the 1970s.
Avia is a book-length epic poem that takes for its subject matter
the war in the air in World War Two. The verse narratives are
stories told by combat pilots from all the major battle theatres,
but are related to Charles Lindbergh in a dream as he returns to
the United States following his 1927 transatlantic flight. Voices
from his future and from our past.
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Poetry Pamphlets 5-8 (Paperback)
New Directions; Hilda Doolittle, Nathaniel Tarn, Forrest Gander, Alejandra Pizarnik
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The second set of New Directions Poetry Pamphlet series, which
includes Vale Ave by H. D.; Eiko & Koma by Forrest Gander; A
Musical Hell by Alejandra Pizarnik; The Beautiful Contradictions by
Nathaniel Tarn.
For some forty years, Nathaniel Tarn has been celebrated as an
extraordinary figure in American writing. His work in a variety of
scholarly and literary genres has ranged from Maya ritual to Jewish
mysticism, the monasteries of Burma to the arctic seas of Alaska.
One of the founders of ethnopoetics, he has brought to poetry an
almost limitless range of interests and a remarkable dexterity in
both open and closed forms. As Eliot Weinberger has written, "What
holds it together is Tarn's ecstatic vision, his continuing
enthusiasm for the stuff of the world."
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.
Nathaniel Tarn's magnificent new collection of poems "Ins and Outs
of the Forest Rivers" reverberates like a trumpet blast to the
present generation. His book opens with a majestic prelude ("as if
this moment were ageless and could always return") and is followed
by four sections: "Of the Perfected Angels," with its moving
meditation on the Issenheim altarpiece by Matthias Grunewald;
"Dying Trees," written out of the loss of thousands and thousands
of trees throughout the American West in recent years; "War
Stills," an engagement with the ongoing atrocities in Iraq; and the
final section, "Movement/The North of The Java Sea," that snakes
its way through the rivers and the indigenous anguish of Borneo,
where Tarn as poet-anthropologist surveyed the loss of forest lands
and its effects on tribal peoples. Reflective, conversational, at
times humorous, and always profound, "Ins and Outs of the Forest
Rivers" is Tarn's most compelling collection to date.
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