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American Literary Studies
Nathaniel Tarn Papers
The Papers
The Nathaniel Tarn Papers include manuscripts of his published and unpublished
poetry and prose, notebooks from his anthropological fieldwork, and correspondence
with his personal friends, literary colleagues, and fellow anthropologists.
Also included is a complete set of his publications, in book as well as
in periodical form.
Location of the Collection: Department of Special Collections,
Green Library
Call Number: M1132
Size: approximately 100 linear feet
Finding Guide: A printed version is available in the reading room of
the Department of Special Collections. Electronic versions of this finding
guide are also available. If you have Microsoft's Internet Explorer version
6.0 or higher, click here to connect to the XML version on the Stanford server;
if not, click here for the html version on the Online Archives of California
server.
Click the links below for a less detailed list compiled by Tarn himself:
Research Access and Use: Materials in the Department of Special Collections
are non-circulating and must be used in the Special Collections' Reading Room
in the Cecil H. Green Library. The Reading Room is open 10:00am to 5:00pm Monday
through Friday. Photocopies, photographs, and microfilm can be made of some
materials in the collections. For more information about the collections and
access policies, please contact Special Collections by telephone at (650) 725-1022,
by electronic mail at speccollref@stanford.edu or
by regular mail at the Department of Special Collections, Stanford University
Libraries, Stanford, California
94305-6004.
Career of Nathaniel Tarn (1928 - )
Nathaniel Tarn was born in Paris, France in 1928. His childhood in Belgium
was disrupted in 1939, when the threat of World War II prompted the family's
removal to England. After graduating in history and English from Cambridge
University, Tarn studied anthropology, first at the Sorbonne and then at
the University of Chicago, where he completed his doctoral degree, based
on fieldwork in the Mayan region of Guatemala. Further work in anthropology
followed, with extensive research on Buddhist culture in Burma. In addition
to his expertise in the Highland Maya area and South East Asia, Tarn has
also worked in the Himalayan region, China, Japan, Cuba, and Alaska.
After publishing his first volume of poetry Old Savage/Young City
in 1964 and a celebrated translation of Pablo Neruda's The Heights
of Macchu Picchu in 1966, Tarn decided to concentrate his energies on
literature. He served as the General Editor of Cape Editions and the Founding
Editor of Cape-Goliard Press in London from 1967 until 1969, then returned
to the United States in 1970. Two years later he assumed a professorship
in comparative literature at Rutgers, which he held until his retirement
in 1985. Today he lives outside Santa Fe, New Mexico.
As poet, essayist, translator,
and editor, Tarn has published some twenty-five books, including an anthology
of his collected essays in literary and cultural
criticism, Views from the Weaving Mountain (1991). His poetry possesses
a remarkable range of voice and reference, fusing archaic myths with contemporary
concerns and moving from complex hieratic visions to the deeply personal.
He is the recipient of numerous awards including the Guinness prize (1963),
Wenner Gren fellowship (1978, 1980), Commonwealth of Pennsylvania fellowship
(1984), and a Rockefeller Foundation fellowship.
Bibliography
Nathaniel Tarn: A Descriptive Bibliography. by Lee Bartlett. Jefferson,
North Carolina, McFarland, 1987
Verse
Old Savage/ Young City. London, Cape, 1964; New York, Random House,
1965.
Penguin Modern Poets 7, with Richard Murphy and Jon Silkin. London,
Penguin, 1966.
Where Babylon Ends. London, Cape Goliard Press, and New York, Grossman,
1968.
The Beautiful Contradictions. London, Cape Goliard Press, 1969; New
York, Random House, 1970.
October: A Sequence of Ten Poems Followed by Requiem Pro Duabus Filiis
Israel. London, Trigrain Press, 1969.
The Silence. Milan, M'Arte, 1970.
A Nowhere for
Vallejo: Choices, October. New York, Random House, 1971; London,
Cape, 1972.
Lyrics for the Bride of God: Section: The Artemision. Santa Barbara,
California, Tree, 1973.
The Persephones. Santa Barbara, California, Tree, 1974.
Lyrics for the Bride of God. New York, New Directions, and London,
Cape, 1975.
Narrative of This Fall. Los Angeles, Black Sparrow Press, 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, with Janet Rodney. Boulder,
Colorado, Brillig Works Press, 1979.
The Land Songs. Plymouth, Blue Guitar, 198 1.
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, 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, 1989.
Views from the Weaving Mountain : Selected Essays in Poetics
and Anthropology. Albuquerque, University of New Mexico Press,
1991.
Drafts
For: The Army Has Announced That From Now On Body Bags Will Be Known As
"Human Remains Pouches". Oregon, Trout Creek Press, 1992
Scandals in the House of Birds, with Martin Prechtel. USA,
Marisilo Publishers, 1997
I Think
This May Be Eden, with Billy Panda Small Press Distributors, 1997.
The Architextures: 1988-1994. Tucson, Chax Press, 2000.
Translations
Con Cuba: An Anthology of Cuban Poetry of the Last Sixty Years.
London, Cape Goliard Press, 1969.
The Heights of Macchu Picchu, by Pablo Neruda. London, Cape, 1966.
Stelae, by Victor Segalen. Santa Barbara, California, Unicorn Press,
1969.
Selected Poems: A Bilingual
Edition, by Pablo Neruda. London, Cape, 1970.
Critical Studies
in Le Belle Contradizzioni, Milan, Munt Press, 1973
"Nathaniel Tam Symposium" in Boundary 2 (Binghamton,
New York), Fall 1975
"The House of Leaves" by A. Kingsley Weatherhead, 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, California, Stanford
University Press, 1980
"America as Desired: Nathaniel Tam's Poetry of the Outsider as Insider"
by Doris Sommer, 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 Economu, in Sulfur (Ypsilanti, Michigan), 14, 1985
Gene Frumkin, in Artspace (Albuquerque), 10(l), 1985
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,
1989
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., in Comparative
Criticism, vol 19: "Literary Devolution." Cambridge, UK: 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, MN, 1999, pp.99-122. A version of this is in
the Internet Magazine, Jacket, no.6, Sydney, Australia, 1999
Last modified:
July 5, 2006
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