Background
Tarn, Nathaniel was born on June 30, 1928 in Paris. Son of Marcel and Yvonne (Suchar) Tarn.
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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.
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The Beautiful Contradictions is an awe-inspiring vortex of mythology, history, and anthropology The Beautiful Contradictions is an awe-inspiring vortex of mythology, history, and anthropology that pushes the lyric to its upper limit. A vast ecopoem for a dying Earth,a socially radical poem, a matrilineal drama, a Judeo-Mayan-Buddhist initiation, a transatlantic epic ending as a transamerican arrival, a testament uniting science and imagination.
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(Poetry. New and profoundly resonant prose poems from anth...)
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. His combination of ingenious metaphor and sexual exuberance has been rare in the language since the 17th century...And like Rexroth & MacDiarmid, his poetry encompasses Eastern philosophy, world myth, revolutionary politics, and precise descriptions of the natural world -- Eliot Weinberger.
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(Poetry. Translation by Julia Kunina. Nathaniel Tarn is an...)
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. Other titles by Nathaniel Tarn from SPD include I THINK THIS MAY BE EDEN, SCANDALS IN THE HOUSE OF BIRDS and MICROCOSM.
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Tarn, Nathaniel was born on June 30, 1928 in Paris. Son of Marcel and Yvonne (Suchar) Tarn.
Bachelor with honors, Cambridge University, England, 1948. Master of Arts, Cambridge University, England, 1952. Postgraduate, University Sorbonne, University Paris, 1951.
Master of Arts, University Chicago, 1952. Doctor of Philosophy, University Chicago, 1957. Postgraduate, London School of Economics, 1958.
Anthropologist, Guatemala, Burma, Alaska, and other locations, since 1952. Professor comparative literature Rutgers University, 1970-1985, professor emeritus modern poetry, comparative lit, anthropology, 1985. Visiting professor State University of New York, Buffalo and Princeton, 1969-1970.
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Children: Andrea, Marc.