Tarn's work brings together mythology, Western and Eastern philosophy, political commentary, scientific investigations, naturalistic descriptions and very personal love poetry. This poetry redefines nature and art for human culture, bringing a genuine psychological and linguistic curiosity about the human mind, about what it means to be human.

Brenda Hillman

In book after book, Nathaniel Tarn has traced the feelings, thoughts, and rituals that establish what and where we think we are.

Joseph Donahue

Tarn creates a syntactical matrix of great fluency and variety and expressiveness. . . . The fact is that many of Tarn's love poems and nature poems are extraordinarily beautiful and moving.

Hayden Carruth