Nathaniel Tarn

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Nathaniel Tarn
Born (1928-06-30) June 30, 1928 (age 95)
Yale
  • University of Chicago
    • Occupations
    • Poet
    • translator
    • editor
    • professor of literature and anthropology
    Employers

    Nathaniel Tarn (born June 30, 1928) is a French-

    Rutgers, where he was a professor from 1972 until 1985.[1] He has lived outside Santa Fe, New Mexico, since his retirement from Rutgers.[4]

    Education

    Tarn was educated at

    Ecole des Hautes Etudes and the Collège de France.[5] 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.[3]

    Career

    In 1958, a grant from the

    School of Oriental and African Studies of the University of London.[5][4] Even after moving primarily to literature, he continued to write and publish anthropological work on the Highland Maya and on the sociology of Buddhist institutions, as E. Michael Mendelson.[6]

    Tarn published his first volume of poetry Old Savage/Young City with

    Rutgers. Since then he has taught English and American Literature, Epic Poetry, Folklore and other subjects at the Universities of Pennsylvania, Colorado, and New Mexico
    .

    As poet, literary and cultural critic (Views from the Weaving Mountain, University of New Mexico Press, 1991, and The Embattled Lyric, Stanford University Press, 2007), translator (he was the first to render Victor Segalen's "Stèles" into English, continued work on Neruda, Latin American and French poets) and editor (with many magazines), Tarn has published some thirty books and booklets in his various disciplines. He has been translated into ten foreign languages. In 1985, he took early retirement as Professor Emeritus of Poetry, Comparative Literature & Anthropology from

    Wenner Gren Foundation, the Social Science Research Council, the American Philosophical Society, and a number of other Foundations. Tarn's literary and anthropological papers are held by Stanford University Libraries
    .

    Selected publications

    Translations

    • Stelae, by Victor Segalen, Santa Barbara: Unicorn Press, 1969.[7]
    • 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 & anthropology

    • Los Escandalos de Maximón. Guatemala: Tipographia Nacional, 1965 (as E. M. M.).[8]
    • Sangha and State in Burma: A Study of Monastic Sectarianism and Leadership. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1975 (as E. M. M.).[8]
    • 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[9]

    References

    1. ^ a b "Nathaniel Tarn". Shearsman Books. Archived from the original on May 27, 2017. Retrieved June 21, 2017.
    2. ^ a b "Nathaniel Tarn entry: Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, California". Retrieved March 10, 2011.
    3. ^ a b c "Nathaniel Tarn Papers, Collection Guide". Online archive of California. California Digital Library. Retrieved June 21, 2017.
    4. ^ a b "Tarn, Nathaniel". Social Networks and Archival Context Cooperative Program. Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities, University of Virginia. Retrieved June 21, 2017.
    5. ^ a b "Nathaniel Tarn". Poetry Foundation. Retrieved June 21, 2017.
    6. ^ "Tarn, Nathaniel". Library of Congress Name Authority File. Library of Congress. Retrieved June 21, 2017.
    7. ^ "Traductions des ouvrages de Segalen".
    8. ^ a b Zamir, Shamoon (2010). "Scandals in the House of Anthropology: Notes towards a reading of Nathaniel Tarn". Jacket. 39.
    9. OCLC 952470499
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