Research Catalog

Title

Ins and outs of the forest rivers / Nathaniel Tarn.

Author

Tarn, Nathaniel.

Publication

New York : New Directions Pub., 2008.

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Details

Description

103 pages; 23 cm.

Summary

"Nathaniel Tarn's magnificent new collection of poems Ins and Outs of the Forest Rivers dives deep into the spiritual and physical sufferings of our global age. After a moving overture (as if this moment were ageless and could always return), the book unfolds in five sections: Of the Perfected Angels, with its lucid meditation on the Issenheim altarpiece by Matthias Grunewald; Dying Trees, written out of the horrible loss of thousands and thousands of trees throughout the American West in recent years; War Stills, an engagement with the ongoing atrocities in Iraq; Movement / North of the Java Sea, taking flight from Maui to Bali to Papua New Guinea; and the final section, Sarawak, snaking its way through the rivers and indigenous anguish of Borneo, where Tarn as poet-anthropologist surveyed the loss of forest lands and its effects on tribal peoples."--BOOK JACKET.

Series Statement

New Directions paperbook ; 1118

Uniform Title

New Directions paperbook ; 1118.

Subjects

• Iraq War, 2003-2011 > Atrocities > Poetry
• Human ecology > Poetry
• Spirituality > Poetry
• Forest degradation > Poetry
• Ecology > Poetry

Contents

Pursuit of the Whole & Parts -- Of the Perfected Angels -- Coachwhip -- Of the Animal -- Authorized Portrait -- Either You Are Receiving Things Which -- The Abandonment -- Three Globo-Gardening Poems -- 1. One among Rose Gardens -- 2. Hummingbird-Sandwich -- 3. The Posteternal Rabbit -- Mathis at Issenheim -- Dying Trees -- 1. The Trill -- 2. A Hand -- 3. A Smile -- 4. Sadness, They Say My Home -- 5. Year's End Chamisas -- 6. The Pain from Conversation -- 7. Fratricidal Roots -- 8. Unravelling / Shock -- 9. Golden Globes of Hopefulness -- War Stills -- Group One -- 1. A Marsyas Effect -- 2. The Fire Season -- 3. The Asphyxiation -- Group Two -- 1. On "Soul" as Alibi for All Hypocrisy -- 2. On Infoglut in the Wake of Pindar -- Group Three -- 1. Hands -- 2. Soft-shell Crabs -- 3. La Citta Morta -- Movement / North of the Java Sea -- Ascending Flight, Los Angeles -- Sun's Clouds -- Self and Other -- A Language of Absence -- The Island Weavers -- Sarawak -- Ins and Outs of the Forest Rivers.

ISBN

• 9780811217989 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 0811217981 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

• 2008022967
• 40015952183

OCLC

• ocn227016356
• 227016356
• SCSB-5441390

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries