Books by Nathaniel Tarn

Linguistically and formally audacious, Tarn is a true innovator.

The Desert Mothers was first published as a chapbook in Mississippi in 1985, and here it is accompanied by three long sequences from the same period, as part of the Shearsman Library series, which is devoted to recovering significant out-of-print, or hard-to-find editions of modern poetry.

The House of Leaves was first published in 1976, and was a significant statement of intent by Nathaniel Tarn - alongside his New Directions volume, Lyrics for the Bride of God - which set the tone for what he wanted to achieve now as an American poet after his emigration from England.

An epic poem on the war-in-the-air, 1939-1945, that focuses on the European theatre and also visits the Asia-Pacific conflict.

A theory of poetic production and reception based on both literary and anthropological studies and models.