| Ins & Outs of the Forest Rivers Contributor(s): Tarn, Nathaniel (Author) |
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ISBN: 0811217981 ISBN-13: 9780811217989 Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation OUR PRICE: $15.26 Product Type: Paperback Published: September 2008 Annotation: Nathaniel Tarn's magnificent new collection of poems "Ins and Outs of the Forest Rivers" reverberates like a trumpet blast to the present generation. His book opens with a majestic prelude ("as if this moment were ageless and could always return") and is followed by four sections: "Of the Perfected Angels," with its moving meditation on the Issenheim altarpiece by Matthias Grunewald; "Dying Trees," written out of the loss of thousands and thousands of trees throughout the American West in recent years; "War Stills," an engagement with the ongoing atrocities in Iraq; and the final section, "Movement/The North of The Java Sea," that snakes its way through the rivers and the indigenous anguish of Borneo, where Tarn as poet-anthropologist surveyed the loss of forest lands and its effects on tribal peoples. Reflective, conversational, at times humorous, and always profound, "Ins and Outs of the Forest Rivers" is Tarn's most compelling collection to date. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - General |
| Dewey: 811.54 |
| LCCN: 2008022967 |
| Series: New Directions Books |
| Physical Information: 0.3" H x 6.1" W x 8.94" (0.37 lbs) 103 pages |
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Contributor Bio(s): Tarn, Nathaniel: - The American poet Nathaniel Tarn was born in Paris in 1928 and emigrated to the US in 1970, where he has lived ever since, mostly in the New Mexican desert. A leading anthropologist for many years and a pioneering translator of Pablo Neruda and Victor Segalen, Tarn, "one of the most outstanding poets of his generation" (Kenneth Rexroth), has published more than thirty books of poetry, essays, and translations--including most recently, The Beautiful Contradictions and Ins and Outs of the Forest Rivers, both available from New Directions. |