Product Description: The Beautiful Contradictions is an awe-inspiring vortex of mythology, history, and anthropologyThe Beautiful Contradictions is an awe-inspiring vortex of mythology, history, and anthropology that pushes the lyric to its upper limit...read more

Product Description: 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 Grünewald; 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...read more

Product Description: 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...read more

Product Description: This new book by Nathaniel Tarn contains two series of "domestic poems"; a set of poems about New Mexico, and a set of lyrical poems on contemporary issues: philosophical, environmental and political. They range from simple to complex; use varying meters and page lay-outs from closed to open - but the voice, developed over 50 years is always uniquely recognizable...read more

Product Description: This book contains a selection of poems by the anthropologist, editor, critic and translator, Nathaniel Tarn written between 1950 and 2000.

Product Description: Poetry. Translation by Julia Kunina. Nathaniel Tarn is an American poet, translator, critic, and editor. He has travelled in Russia in 1968 and 1995 and twice in 1998. "Speaking the language/ of lineages ago/ language of exile/ no longer recognized:/ is this our language?/ It is, it IS the language,/ but it has grown to wood, / it misses the word "soul,"/ and everything dries up/ around that absence" -- from The Names Return...read more

Product Description: Poetry. New and profoundly resonant prose poems from anthropologist, editor, critic and translator Nathaniel Tarn. What holds it together is Tarn's ecstatic vision, his continuing enthusiasm for the stuff of the world...Since the death of Kenneth Rexroth, he is, with Michael McClure, the major celebrant of heterosexual love in the language...read more

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Product Description: Poetry. Translated from the Russian by Simon Pettet, Bruce McClelland, Tanya Beylin, and Alexander Kalouzhsky. A GUEST IN THE HOMELAND brings together translations and adaptations by various writers and translators drawn to the work of Russian poet Vadim Mesyat's work over the past several years...read more

Product Description: As a poet, translator, and editor, Nathaniel Tarn is one of the signal voices of the New American Writing. Additionally, he is a distinguished anthropologist, one of the crucial figures in the field of ethno poetics, and the founding editor of Cape Editions and the Cape-Golliard Press...read more

Product Description: Book by Tarn, Nathaniel

Product Description: Signed to Georce MacBeth: "To George, between lunch & Cambridge & lunch