Nathaniel Tarn - The American Uni-Verse
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[From The Embattled Lyric: Essays and Conversations in Poetics and Anthropology, Stanford University Press, 2007]
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Nathaniel Tarn
WHAT true link is there between this aborigine and ourselves? True they were migrants also, the earliest migrants too, the earliest migrants into the land of nails-in-the-feet: and where did they come from indeed? Old world Asia. Turn, world, turn: the circle will never cease to turn.
There was this carpenter: last Jew / first Christian. I am late in the East, early in the West: this clan is mine. Bringing the white scarf to America, out of the island, carrying East into West: meeting those who had brought the crimson scarf from East to West in our sense, though continuing eastward in theirs - what is this but the wandering assumption of all the priesthoods of the world, gathering them into the body, gathering them into the life, and then taking the life into the poem? The world has voice in us, we are the crust of its imaginations. [...] The river runs back; the clocks return and we are all one man.
[Nathaniel Tarn, 'Toward Any Geography' from The Embattled Lyric p.7]
