Author: Nathaniel Tarn

Each hymn in Nathaniel Tarns new collection The Hölderliniae is a love song to the Poet of Poets, Friedrich Hölderlin? the German Romantic poet-phi...

Gondwana: an ancient supercontinent long-dispersed into fragments in the Southern Hemisphere. Contemplating this once-massive landmass at the the e...

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 co...

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 co...

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 ...

The Desert Mothers was first published by a small press in Mississippi in 1984, and contained several important poems from Nathaniel Tarn's early '...

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 Tar...

The Beautiful Contradictions is an awe-inspiring vortex of mythology, history, and anthropology that pushes the lyric to its upper limit. A vast ec...

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...