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Ins & Outs of the Forest Rivers
Nathaniel Tarn’s newest collection of poems, Ins and Outs of the Forest Rivers , dives deep into the spiritual and physical sufferings of our global age. After a moving overture, the book unfolds in five “Of the Perfected Angels,” with its lucid meditation on Issenheim altarpiece by Matthias Grünewald; “Dying Trees,” written out of the horrible loss of hundreds of thousands of trees throughout the American West in recent years; “War Stills,” an engagement with the ongoing atrocities in Iraq; “Movement / North of the Java Sea,” taking flight from Maui to Bali to Papua New Guinea; and the final section “Sarawak,” snaking its way through the river and indigenous anguish of Borneo, where Tarn as poet-anthropologist surveyed the loss of forest lands and its effects on tribal peoples.
- GenresPoetry
103 pages, Paperback
First published September 26, 2008
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Nathaniel Tarn
79 books12 followersNathaniel Tarn is an American poet, essayist, anthropologist, and translator.
Tarn was educated at Clifton College, UK and graduated 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 Fulbright a grant took him to Yale and the University of Chicago where Robert Redfield sent him to Guatemala for his doctoral fieldwork (1951-2) at the University of Chicago. He completed this work as a graduate student at the London School of Economics (1953-8).
Tarn was a professor at the University of London's School of Oriental and African Studies.
He emigrated to the United States in 1970 and taught at American universities.
Tarn was educated at Clifton College, UK and graduated 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 Fulbright a grant took him to Yale and the University of Chicago where Robert Redfield sent him to Guatemala for his doctoral fieldwork (1951-2) at the University of Chicago. He completed this work as a graduate student at the London School of Economics (1953-8).
Tarn was a professor at the University of London's School of Oriental and African Studies.
He emigrated to the United States in 1970 and taught at American universities.
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December 13, 2018
Love this book. Tarn has always made demands, but if you're willing to meet them, the rewards are amazing. Recently reread it, but below is a link to a few words I did on it a bunch of years ago.
https://annarborobserver.com/articles...
https://annarborobserver.com/articles...
November 28, 2010
amazing--blew me away many times/ refreshing to my brain & soul
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