Selected Poems by James Tate
The Selected Poems James Tate's Pulitzer Prize-winning collection and his first British publication, gathers work from nine previous books, from the Lost Pilot which was a Yale Younger Poets selection in 1967, through his 1986 collection Reckoner. He is a most agile poet in a precarious world. Life is alarming and absurd, but properly considered that absurdity reveals, often with laughter, the something else by which we live. The poems are about our world, our wrecked, vexed love for it. Tate has been described as a surrealist. If that is what he is, his surrealism issues in a vision of a world delivered back to itself by his unillusioned subversion and candor.James Tate is the author of 14 collections of poetry, the most recent of which is Return to the City of White Donkeys, published in 2004. He has received numerous prizes, including fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundations, as well as the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. His first collection of stories is Dreams of the Robot Dancing Bee. He is an associate professor at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780819511928 |
| ISBN 10 | 0819511927 |
| Title | Selected Poems |
| Author | James Tate |
| Series | Wesleyan Poetry |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Wesleyan University Press |
| Year published | 1991-06-14 |
| Number of pages | 250 |
| Prizes | Winner of Pulitzer Prize Poetry Category 1992 |
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