Snag Your Copy The Embattled Lyric: Essays And Conversations In Poetics And Anthropology Articulated By Nathaniel Tarn Issued As Manuscript

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 authors 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,

A crucial book for intersections of all kinds of transcultural poetics: transAtlantic Western amp Eastern North

amp South American oral amp written, The interview at the end is particularly useful, Nathaniel Tarn is an American poet, essayist, anthropologist, and translator, Tarn was educated at Clifton College, UK and graduated in history and English from Kings College, Cambridge, He returned to Paris and, after some journalism and radio work, discovered anthropology at the Musée de lHomme, 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 fieldworkat the University of Chicago.
He completed this work as a graduate student at the London School of Economics, Tarn was a professor at the University of Londons School of Oriental and African Studies, He emigrated to the United States inNathaniel 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 lHomme, 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 fieldworkat the University of Chicago.
He completed this work as a graduate student at the London School of Economics, Tarn was a professor at the University of London's School of Oriental and African Studies, He emigrated to the United States inand taught at American universities, sitelink.