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Can I read Gondwana : and Other Poems on EtoBox?
Gondwana : and Other Poems by Nathaniel Tarn [Tarn, Nathaniel] is a work of literary fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Gondwana : and Other Poems about?
A new collection by America’s internationalist poet—“a vision both original and universal” (Octavio Paz) Gondwana: an ancient supercontinent long-dispersed into fragments in the Southern Hemisphere. Contemplating this once-massive landmass at the the end of the world while looking out at the ethereal blue ice of Antarctica, Nathaniel Tarn writes: “They said back then / there was a frozen continent / in those high latitudes encircling the globe: /are you moving toward it?” The various parts of Gondwana cohere into a unified whole that celebrates bird flight, waves, and innervating light while warning against environmental calamity. Some poems celebrate the New Mexican desert as it becomes a place of protest against the invasion of Afghanistan; in another, the rising and falling stairs at Fez in Morocco meld into a meditation on marriage, empire, and the origins of climbing. Elsewhere the heroic fighter pilot Lydia Litvyak is personified as Eurydice speaking to her Captain as Orpheus; and in the final long section, “Exitus Generis Humani,” lines pour over the reader in slow, mournful, yet often humorous, song, revealing “the poets’ hearts are a world’s heart” as the human race ends a
Who reads Gondwana : and Other Poems?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Nathaniel Tarn [Tarn, Nathaniel]
- Publisher
- New Directions Publishing Corporation
- Published
- 2017
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780811225038
- Category
- work of literary fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Poetry, Humanities
- Rating
- 3.5 / 5 (6 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14