Poetry. "Nathanson's HOME ON THE RANGE is an energetic, original and curious work, roaming among poetry, fiction, and dream--a "travel" narrative traversing many haunted semantic sites. Whitman-inspired in its scope and interactive probing, yet also a work evoking losses, oddities, and orphanhood. The work is a considerable achievement, with the power to startle and confront in every way, from concept to detail"--Rachel Blau DuPlessis. "Tenney Nathanson is one of the poets who in a transparent way are obsessed by investigation and consciousness... His idea of the poem is of a naturalizing epic that may exclude nothing. In this sense, his poetry is always about the family and the possibilities of friendship and Eros in a bleak time--Nathanson comes from the tradition of experience and Dewey, and his work is less about anything than it is a wilderness experience, like the baggy novel full of fate: the long poem to wander. He is one of my favorite poets, and he is impossibly and humorously seri

Author Hometown: TUCSON, AZ USA



About the author: Tenney Nathanson teaches American poetry and, from time to time, creative writing in the English Department at the University of Arizona in Tucson, where he currently directs the PhD program in literature. In 1996 he helped found the Tucson poetry and arts collective POG, which presents readings, workshops, and artists' talks. In 2008 he co-founded Tucson's Desert Rain Zen Group, affiliated with the Santa Fe based Open Source Zen project and part of the Pacific Zen School. His earlier books of poetry include ERASED ART from Chax Press and HOME ON THE RANGE (THE NIGHT SKY WITH STARS IN MY MOUTH) from O Books. He has also published a study of Walt Whitman, Whitman's Presence: Body, Voice, and Writing in Leaves of Grass, with New York University Press. He lives with his family in Tucson.

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