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Over the course of his long career, Nathaniel Tarn has been a poet, anthropologist, and book editor, while his travels have taken him into every continent. Born in France, raised in England, and earning a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, he knew André Breton, Salvador Dalí, Marcel Duchamp, Margot Fonteyn, Charles Olson, Claude Lévi-Strauss, and many more of the twentieth century’s major artists and intellectuals. In Atlantis, an Autoanthropology he writes that he has "never (yet) been able to experience the sensation of being only one person.” Throughout this literary memoir and autoethnography, Tarn captures this multiplicity and reaches for the uncertainties of a life lived in a dizzying array of times, cultures, and environments. Drawing on his practice as an anthropologist, he takes himself as a subject of study, examining the shape of a life devoted to the study of the whole of human culture. Atlantis, an Autoanthropology prompts us to consider our own multiple selves and the mysteries contained within.

The Breeze Behind the Breeze calls up a world on the edge of a revelation, where the unseen furtively and fervently composes the seen. Unexpected emotions arise in the flow of a poetry that slides between the surreal and the real, from a search for a lost dog in Cincinnati to sunken continents, a rehab clinic to an Egyptian tomb, and onward into the life to come. From a breeze behind a breeze comes word of celestial origins and earthly motions. Drawing on a range of aesthetic and spiritual traditions, Joseph Donahue asks us to consider the world behind the world we see, a world revealed in vivid particulars, in various voices, and in dreams that propose we begin, end, and perhaps continue in an ever-expanding cosmos.