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by: James Tate
Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 811.54
EAN: 9780066210179
ISBN: 0066210178
Label: Ecco
Manufacturer: Ecco
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 192
Publication Date: June 01, 2001
Publisher: Ecco
Release Date: June 05, 2001
Sales Rank: 1626394
Studio: Ecco
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Book Description:
James Tate's new book, Memoir of the Hawk, creates a world populated by hundreds of characters, believable and strange, tugged at the edges by the unexpected. In the privacy of their homes, who can save them from themselves? In the forests and hills and on the beautiful lakes, what could possibly be wrong? Even in the sweet hometown, with its kindly police, menace lurks in a thousand disguises. Mystery and magic surround this metropolis of the imagination. Once again, James Tate has given us a world of surprising pleasures:...lost in the interstellar space between teacups in the cupboard, found in the beak of a downy woodpecker, the lovers staring into the void and then jumping over it, flying into their beautiful tomorrows like the heroes of a storm.
Customer Reviews
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Rating: - memoir of the hawk
i have read and enjoyed other collections by tate but this one has been the most enjoyable to me. tate's language isn't as convoluted and heavy-handed as many contemporary poets, and he manages to balance light, easily-readable language with craft and mastery. this is one of my favorite books of poetry because this balance allows for academic acceptance while maintaining reader access-points that i think would let any person enjoy reading this book.
Rating: - Enthralling. Fresh. Unique. Pulitzer-worthy.
I'm a not usually a big poetry guy, but this collection of poems enthralled me. So fresh. So unique. For once I agree that a work should have won the Pulitzer, as this one did. Tate combines his fresh images together into poems that surprise you, shock you, inspire you, and ultimately keep you flipping the pages. They're great to be read aloud. Few, if any, rhymes and metered sections, his poems tell short, imagistic tales of proverbial wisdom.
Why do the doves fly out of the priests ... Read More
Rating: - Compelling/Absurd
I was drawn to this having read Tate's "Worshipful Company of Fletchers" and his "Selected Poems". The former I loved, but the later felt more subdued. Here in "The Memoir of the Hawk" we have another set of poems which truly give the reader joy. I found myself rereading nearly every poem to enjoy the images and unexpected events. I laughed out loud at many of these poems, good solid laughter from the strangeness of the world of the poem and at times from straight comedy.
Not a book for ... Read More
Rating:  - Still The Master
I had the idea to write an impassioned defense of this book, but it is too hot, I don't have the energy. And really, it was the wrong idea anyways -- this book doesn't need an impassioned, intellectual defense.
It is a little too long. There are poems in it that are weak and that stand out against the others. But there are poems in this book that are heartbreaking, astonishing, and beautiful. James Tate can still move through a poem nimbly, artfully, and darkly in a way that no one ... Read More
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