Nathaniel Tarn

Nathaniel Tarn (June 30, 1928 – June 26, 2024) was a French-American poet, essayist, anthropologist, and translator. He was born Edward Michael Mendelson in Paris, France, to a French-Romanian mother and a British-Lithuanian father.

Selected publications Old Savage/Young City. London: Cape, 1964; New York: Random House, 1966 Penguin Modern Poets no. 7. London: Penguin Books, 1966 Where Babylon Ends. London: Cape Goliard Press; New York: Grossman, 1968. The Beautiful Contradictions. London: Cape Goliard Press, 1969; New York: Random House, 1970; New York: New Directions, 2013. October: A Sequence of Ten Poems Followed by Requiem Pro Duabus Filiis Israel. London: Trigram Press, 1969. A Nowhere for Vallejo: Choices, October. New York: Random House, 1971; London: Cape, 1972. Le Belle Contraddizioni (tr. Roberto Sanesi). Milan & Samedan, Switz.: Munt Press, 1973 The Persephones. Santa Barbara, California: Tree, 1974; Sherman Oaks, California: Ninja Press, 2009. Lyrics for the Bride of God. New York: New Directions, and London: Cape, 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, the *Alashka* with Janet Rodney. Boulder, Colorado: Brillig Works Press, 1979. 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 Press, 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 Press, 1989. Drafts For: The Army Has Announced That From Now On Body Bags Will Be Known As "Human Remains Pouches" . Parkdale, Oregon: Trout Creek Press, 1992. Flying the Body. Los Angeles: Arundel Press, 1993 A Multitude of One: The Poems of Natasha Tarn (N.T. Editor). New York: Grenfell Press, 1994. I Think This May Be Eden, a CD with music by Billy Panda. Nashville: Small Press Distributors, 1997. The Architextures: 1988–1994. Tucson: Chax Press, 2000. Three Letters from the City: the St. Petersburg Poems. Santa Fe: The Weaselsleeves Press and St. Petersburg: Borey Art Center, 2001. Selected Poems: 1950-2000. Middletown: Wesleyan University Press, 2002. Recollections of Being. Cambridge and Sydney: Salt Publishing, 2004. Avia: A Poem of International Air Combat, 1939–1945. Exeter: Shearsman Books, 2008. Ins and Outs of the Forest Rivers. New York: New Directions, 2008. Gondwana and Other Poems. New York: New Directions, 2017.

Translations Stelae, by Victor Segalen, Santa Barbara: Unicorn Press, 1969. The Heights of Macchu Picchu, by Pablo Neruda. London: Cape, 1966 (broadcast by the BBC Third Programme 1966). Con Cuba. London: Cape Goliard Press, 1969. Selected Poems: A Bilingual Edition, by Pablo Neruda. London: Cape, 1970. Pablo Neruda: Selected Poems. London: Penguin Books, 1975 .

Criticism and anthropology Los Escandalos de Maximón. Guatemala: Tipographia Nacional, 1965 (as E. M. M.). Sangha and State in Burma: A Study of Monastic Sectarianism and Leadership. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1975 (as E. M. M.).