The Desert Mothers

The core of this volume was originally a chapbook of the same title, first published in Mississippi in 1985, and demonstrates in shorter poems how Tarn's work was developing in the '80s. It contains some remarkable work that stands up today, as fresh as the year in which that selection was first published. In this second edition, the original poems are joined by three other long sequences from the same period, turning it into a full-length book.