As a poet, translator, and editor, Nathaniel Tarn is one of the signal voices of the New American Writing. Additionally, he is a distinguished anthropologist, one of the crucial figures in the field of ethno poetics, and the founding editor of Cape Editions and the Cape-Golliard Press. For three decades his essays have appeared in such journals as New Literary History, America Poetry, Alcheringa, Diogenes, Sub-stance, and Temblor. They are collected...