Nathaniel Tarn

Tarn was educated at Lycée d'Anvers and Clifton College and graduated with degrees in history and English from King's College, Cambridge. He returned to Paris and, after some journalism and radio work, discovered anthropology at the Musée de l'Homme, the Ecole des Hautes Etudes and the Collège de France. A Smith-Mundt-Fulbright grant took him to the University of Chicago; he did fieldwork for his doctorate in anthropology with the Highlands Maya of Guatemala. ==Career==

In 1958, a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation administered by the Royal Institute of International Affairs sent him to Burma for 18 months, after which he became an instructor at London School of Economics and then lecturer in Southeast Asian Anthropology at the School of Oriental and African Studies of the University of London. ==Selected publications==

• Old Savage/Young City. London: Cape, 1964; New York: Random House, 1966 • Penguin Modern Poets no. 7. London: Penguin Books, 1966 • Where Babylon Ends. London: Cape Goliard Press; New York: Grossman, 1968. • The Beautiful Contradictions. London: Cape Goliard Press, 1969; New York: Random House, 1970; New York: New Directions, 2013. • October: A Sequence of Ten Poems Followed by Requiem Pro Duabus Filiis Israel. London: Trigram Press, 1969. • A Nowhere for Vallejo: Choices, October. New York: Random House, 1971; London: Cape, 1972. • Le Belle Contraddizioni (tr. Roberto Sanesi). Milan & Samedan, Switz.: Munt Press, 1973 • The Persephones. Santa Barbara, California: Tree, 1974; Sherman Oaks, California: Ninja Press, 2009. • Lyrics for the Bride of God. New York: New Directions, and London: Cape, 1975. • The House of Leaves. Santa Barbara, California: Black Sparrow Press, 1976. • From Alashka: The Ground of Our Great Admiration of Nature. With Janet Rodney. London: Permanent Press, 1977. • The Microcosm. Milwaukee: Membrane Press. 1977. • Birdscapes, with Seaside. Santa Barbara, California: Black Sparrow Press, 1978. • The Forest. With Janet Rodney. Mount Horeb, Wisconsin: Perishable Press, 1978. • Atitlan / Alashka: New and Selected Poems, the *Alashka* with Janet Rodney. Boulder, Colorado: Brillig Works Press, 1979. • Weekends in Mexico. London: Oxus Press, 1982. • The Desert Mothers. Grenada, Mississippi: Salt Works Press, 1984. • At the Western Gates. Santa Fe: Tooth of Time Press, 1985. • Palenque: Selected Poems 1972–1984. London: Oasis/Shearsman Press, 1986. • Seeing America First. Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, 1989. • The Mothers of Matagalpa. London: Oasis Press, 1989. • Drafts For: The Army Has Announced That From Now On Body Bags Will Be Known As "Human Remains Pouches" . Parkdale, Oregon: Trout Creek Press, 1992. • Flying the Body. Los Angeles: Arundel Press, 1993 • A Multitude of One: The Poems of Natasha Tarn (N.T. Editor). New York: Grenfell Press, 1994. • I Think This May Be Eden, a CD with music by Billy Panda. Nashville: Small Press Distributors, 1997. • The Architextures: 1988–1994. Tucson: Chax Press, 2000. • Three Letters from the City: the St. Petersburg Poems. Santa Fe: The Weaselsleeves Press and St. Petersburg: Borey Art Center, 2001. • Selected Poems: 1950-2000. Middletown: Wesleyan University Press, 2002. • Recollections of Being. Cambridge and Sydney: Salt Publishing, 2004. • Avia: A Poem of International Air Combat, 1939–1945. Exeter: Shearsman Books, 2008. • Ins and Outs of the Forest Rivers. New York: New Directions, 2008. • Gondwana and Other Poems. New York: New Directions, 2017. ==Translations==

• Stelae, by Victor Segalen, Santa Barbara: Unicorn Press, 1969. • The Heights of Macchu Picchu, by Pablo Neruda. London: Cape, 1966 (broadcast by the BBC Third Programme 1966). • Con Cuba. London: Cape Goliard Press, 1969. • Selected Poems: A Bilingual Edition, by Pablo Neruda. London: Cape, 1970. • Pablo Neruda: Selected Poems. London: Penguin Books, 1975 . ==Criticism and anthropology==

• Los Escandalos de Maximón. Guatemala: Tipographia Nacional, 1965 (as E. M. M.). • Sangha and State in Burma: A Study of Monastic Sectarianism and Leadership. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1975 (as E. M. M.). • Views from the Weaving Mountain: Selected Essays in Poetics & Anthropology. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1991. • Scandals in the House of Birds: Priests & Shamans in Santiago Atitlán, Guatemala. New York: Marsilio Publishers, 1997. • The Embattled Lyric; Essays & Conversations in Poetics & Anthropology, with a biographical & bibliographical essay by, and a conversation with, Shamoon Zamir. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2007. ==Critical studies==

• Roberto Sanesi in Le Belle Contradizzioni, Milan: Munt Press, 1973 • "Nathaniel Tarn Symposium" in Boundary 2 (Binghamton, NY.), Fall 1975 • "The House of Leaves" by A. Dean Friedland, in Credences 4 (Kent, Ohio), 1977 • Ted Enslin and Rochelle Ratner, in American Book Review 2 (New York), 5, 1980 • Translating Neruda by John Felstiner, Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1980 • "America as Desired: Nathaniel Tarn's Poetry of the Outsider as Insider" by Daria Nekrasova, in American Poetry I (Albuquerque), 4, 1984 • "II Mito come Metalinguaggio nella Poesia de Nathaniel Tarn" by Fedora Giordano, in ''Letteratura d'America'' (Rome), 5(22), 1984. • George Economou, in Sulfur (Ypsilanti, MI.), 14, 1985. • Gene Frumkin, in Artspace (Albuquerque), 10(l), 1985. • Lee Bartlett, Nathaniel Tarn: A Descriptive Bibliography, Jefferson, NC & London, 1987 • Lee Bartlett, in Talking Poetry, Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1987 • "The Sun Is But a Morning Star" by Lee Bartlett, in Studies in West Coast Poetry and Poetics (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1989). • "An Aviary of Tarns" by Eliot Weinberger, in Written Reaction, New York: Marsilio Publishing, 1996 • Shamoon Zamir: "Bringing the World to Little England: Cape Editions, Cape Goliard and Poetry in the Sixties. An Interview with Nathaniel Tarn. With an afterword by Tom Raworth", in E. S. Shaffer, ed., Comparative Criticism, 19: "Literary Devolution." Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 263–286, 1997. • Shamoon Zamir: "On Anthropology & Poetry: an Interview with Nathaniel Tarn", Boxkite, no. 1, Sydney, Australia, 1998. • Shamoon Zamir: "Scandals in the House of Anthropology: notes towards a reading of Nathaniel Tarn" in Cross Cultural Poetics, no.5, (Minneapolis), 1999, pp. 99–122. • Brenda Hillman: Review of "Selected Poems" in Jacket, 28 (internet), Sydney, Australia, 1999. • Joseph Donahue: Review of "The Architextures" First Intensity, 16, 2001 (Lawrence, Kansas). • Peter O'Leary: Review of "Selected Poems: 1950–2000" in XCP Cross Cultural Poetics,. 12, 2003 (Minneapolis). • Martin Anderson: Review of "Recollections of Being" in Jacket, 36 (internet), Sydney, Australia, 2008. • Daniel Bouchard: Conversation with NT, in Zoland Poetry, 3, 2009, Hanover, New Hampshire: Steerforth Press, 2009. • Isobel Armstrong: Review of "Avia" in Tears in the Fence, 50, Blandford Forum, Dorset, UK, 2009. • Joseph Donahue: review of "Ins & Outs of the Forest Rivers" in "A Nathaniel Tarn Tribute": Jacket, 39 (internet), Sydney, Australia, 2010. • Richard Deming: Essay on "The Embattled Lyric" & "Selected Poems" in "A Nathaniel Tarn Tribute": Jacket, 39 (internet), Sydney, Australia, 2010. • Lisa Raphals: Reading NT's "House of Leaves" in "A Nathaniel Tarn Tribute": Jacket, 39 (internet), Sydney, Australia, 2010. • Toby Olson, Peter Quartermain, John Olson, Richard Deming, David Need, Norman Finkelstein, Peter O'Leary: "For N.T.'s 80th Birthday": Golden Handcuffs Review", 11, 2009 (Seattle). == La Légende de Saint-Germain-des-Prés ==

Photo book by Serge Jacques with sparse texts by Michel Tavriger printed in both French and English, Paris, 1950 ==References==