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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 811
EAN: 9780060750022
ISBN: 0060750022
Label: Ecco
Manufacturer: Ecco
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 192
Publication Date: November 01, 2005
Publisher: Ecco
Release Date: November 01, 2005
Studio: Ecco
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In his fourteenth collection of poetry, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner James Tate continues exploring his own peculiar brand of poetry, transforming our everyday world, a world where women give birth to wolves, wild babies are found in gardens, and Saint Nick visits on a hot July day. Tate's signature style draws on a marvelous variety of voices and characters, all of which sound vaguely familiar, but are each fantastically unique, brilliant, and eccentric.
Yet, as Charles Simic observed in the New York Review of Books, "With all his reliance on chance, Tate has a serious purpose. He's searching for a new way to write a lyric poem." He continues, "To write a poem out of nothing at all is Tate's genius. For him, the poem is something one did not know was there until it was written down. . . . Just about anything can happen next in this kind of poetry and that is its attraction. . . . Tate is not worried about leaving us a little dazed. . . . He succeeds in ways for which there are a few precedents. He makes me think that anti-poetry is the best friend poetry ever had."
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this book is a fantastic bargain. it's a lesson in how creative a mind can be when able to free associate, but it still shows the craft of a master poet. tate doesn't strain to be weird or resort to gimmicks, he just tells his funny little stories in poetic form and they always go to surprising places. i love his book.
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Yes, the James Tate poems are up to something. As unique a collection of poems as you will find anywhere. In this book are poems that usurp America.
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I had the pleasure of hearing James Tate read some of these poems at a writers' conference and was able to get an autograohed copy of this delightful book. The poems, some of which read like short stories, are multi-layered and you'll want to read them many times.
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James Tate does it, ie does it and does it. James Tate is up to something.
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Dewey Decimal Number: 811
EAN: 9780060750022
ISBN: 0060750022
Label: Ecco
Manufacturer: Ecco
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 192
Publication Date: November 01, 2005
Publisher: Ecco
Release Date: November 01, 2005
Studio: Ecco