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Unravelling / Shock by Nathaniel Tarn | Poetry Foundation

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Hosted by Al Filreis and featuring Marcella Durand, Burt Kimmelman and Erin Gautsche. Need a transcript of this episode? Request a transcript here. Nathaniel Tarn is a French, English, and American poet born in Paris in 1928. He has published more than 30 books of poetry with Jonathan Cape, Random House, Wesleyan University Press, and New Directions. Tarn’s latest book, Atlantis, an Autoanthropology (Duke University Press, 2022) is...

Share A hole torn in the fabric of the world, the web, the whole infernal weave through which life-giving rain is falling but mixing with the tears and with the blood. Dead body-snatchers enter, the mega-corpses, much in the news these days, enter and grind bones, flesh and sinews down to dry tree bark, mixing with tree bark, crawling with the demonic beetles. They’ll tell it later: “No one expected this”: not one—patient, doctors, practitioners of every stripe, no one except the one whose daily work is close to prophecy, who feels it in his nerves or in her muscles—where news travels up fast

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