The Embattled LyricThis book has two main subjects which are interwoven: the attitudes of selected poets (including Neruda, Rilke, Breton, Celan, and Artaud) to the "primitive" and the archaic, studied from an anthropologist's viewpoint; and a model of the processes whereby poetry is produced and received, built on the authors successful careers as both poet and anthropologist. The book includes detailed biographical information about how Tarn went from being a French