Mexico. As poet, literary and cultural critic (Views from the Weaving Mountain, University of New Mexico Press, 1991, and The Embattled Lyric, Stanford University Press, 2007), translator (he was the first to render Victor Segalen's "Stèles" into English, continued work on Neruda, Latin American and French poets) and editor (with many magazines), Tarn has published some thirty books and booklets in his various disciplines. He has been translated into ten foreign languages. In 1985, he took early retirement as Professor Emeritus of Poetry, Comparative Literature & Anthropology from Rutgers University and has since lived near Santa Fe, New Mexico. His interests range from bird watching, gardening, classical music, opera and ballet, and much varied collecting, to aviation and world history. Among many recognitions, Tarn has received the Guinness prize for his first book, a Pennsylvania State literary prize for teaching poetry in the schools, was a finalist in the Phi Beta Kappa poetry awards for Selected Poems 1950–2000. His work has been supported by the Fulbright Program, the Wenner Gren Foundation, the Social Science Research Council, the American Philosophical Society, and a number of other Foundations. Tarn's literary and anthropological papers are held by Stanford University Libraries. 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. 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