The Embattled Lyric
Essays and Conversations in Poetics and Anthropology
Published on 4. June 2007
Book
Hardback
288 pages
978-0-8047-5053-0 (ISBN)
Description
This 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 author's 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.
Reviews / Votes
"Tarn as proven himself to be one of the most demanding and exacting of poetry's anthropologists. If his particular blend of density, polymathism, and accessibility have slipped him through the cracks of critical and popular attention, his investigations in The Embattled Lyric provide an entryway into the contexts of Tarn's poetics, and from there into his poetry." - Rain Taxi "Tarn's poetry and criticism is remarkable for its expansiveness and willingness to absorb material from disparate sources and disciplines. This book takes the reader on a journey with both Tarn the anthropologist and Tarn the poet/thinker absorbed in the intellectual currents of the late twentieth century." - The Use of English "The Embattled Lyric is written from the viewpoint of a poet/anthropologist, a series of bright essays on Celan, Paz, Huidobro, and others." - The AgeMore details
Series
Edition
New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Palo Alto
United States
Target group
Adult education
Edition type
New edition
Product notice
Cloth
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 163 mm
Thickness: 21 mm
Weight
503 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8047-5053-0 (9780804750530)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Nathaniel Tarn is a distinguished poet with academic training in anthropology and comparative literature. He was Professor of Poetry, Professor of Comparative Literature, and Professor of Anthopology at Rutgers University. His most well known books of poetry are The Beautiful Contradictions (1970), A Nowhere for Vallejo (1972), Lyrics for the Bride of God (1975), The House of Leaves (1976), and, most recently, Selected Poems, 1950-2000 (2002).
Content
Contents Preface 000 ONE: TOWARD ANY AMERICA WHATSOEVER 1. Toward Any Geography 000 2. Child as Father 000 3. Andre Breton 000 4. Newly Saying (Nishitani) 000 5. Pablo Neruda 000 6. Paul Celan 000 7. Among Altazors (Huidobro) 9840 8. Michel Leiris 000 9. The Search for the Primitive (Artaud) 000 10. Translation/Antitranslation 000 11. Octavio Paz 000 12. Initiation 000 13. Heraldic Vision 000 14. Archaeology Elegy 000 15. The Choral Voice 000 16. Exile out of Silence 000 17. New Forms 000 18. On Refining a Model 000 19. Interview 000