Nathaniel Tarn

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Nathaniel Tarn (born 1928) is a British-American poet.

Nathaniel Tarn was born in 1928 in Paris of British parents and educated in France, Belgium and England and is a trained anthropologist. He has travelled widely, in Europe, Asia and the Americas, and has a more cosmopolitan outlook than most British poets. He is often regarded as one of the Group. He is included in British Poetry since 1945.

He founded and edited the Cape Editions series in England in the 1960s.

He moved to the United States in 1970 and is now an American citizen.

Tarn has published more than thirty volumes of his own poetry, and numerous translations (including versions of Pablo Neruda, Victor Segalen and others). A specialist in Highland Maya studies and the sociology of Buddhist institutions, Tarn was also one of Marcel Duchamp's occasional Greenwich Village chess partners.

[edit] Publications

• Views from the Weaving Mountain (selected essays in poetics and anthropology; University of New Mexico Press, 1991)
• Selected Poems 1950-2000 (Wesleyan University Press, 2002)

[edit] References

• British Poetry since 1945 (Penguin)
• Eliot Weinberger (editor): American Poetry Since 1950: Innovators & Outsiders, Marsilio Publishers, New York, NY, 1993.