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by: James Tate
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 811.54
EAN: 9780819511928
ISBN: 0819511927
Label: Wesleyan
Manufacturer: Wesleyan
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 250
Publication Date: March 15, 1991
Publisher: Wesleyan
Sales Rank: 209897
Studio: Wesleyan
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A selection representative of 25 years of work and nine books, from Lost Pilot (1967) through Reckoner (1986), these poems showcase Tate's talent for surreal entertainment that reveals an underlying serious point. He writes: 'I am surrounded by the pieces of this huge/puzzle: here's a piece I call my wife, and/ here's an odd one I call convictions, here's/ conventions, here's collisions, conflagrations . . . ' In such high comedy Tate leaves lingering questions about the problems of existence, while leaving too a smile on the reader's face. The book won the 1992 Pulitzer Prize for poetry.
Product Description:
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.
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - A wonderful collection
I came across James Tate's poetry in an anthology of Prose Poems, and immediately fell in love with his style. That has spurred me on to get a representative collection of his writing, and by and large I have not been disappointed. This is a wonderful book, with some of the most imaginative use of images and language that I have come across. However, I believe that Tate's prose poems are superior to the rest of his writings, and would really like to read a collection of those. Overall, however, I ... Read More
Rating:  - Hyperbole just isn't enough
James Tate is THE visionary poet of our age and this is his most comprehensive collection to date.
I have read, reread and read again every piece of Tate's writing I have been able to find since I was first exposed to Tate in a class I took with Rodney Jones (another excellent poet) nearly twenty years ago.
Little can compare with:
The Lost Pilot
Coming Down Cleveland Avenue
F@ck the Astronauts
...except the rest of this selected edition ... Read More
Rating: - Bukowski is Old and Tired and Sensationalistic
...and so to equate him w/ Tate is laughable. Your hexes won't work 'round these parts.
Rating:  - The Man stands on the shoulders of Bukowski
(How does he do it?)
(Open letter to James Tate, stalwart UMass prof. :
you won't get any toys this X-mas -- many months away --
because you've leeched off the writings of Ole Buk and this is
funny because you possess the vitality and soul of a
110-pound Alabama sharecropper.)
Rating: - LOVE IT!!
I had never even heard of James Tate until we began to study him in my 20th century literature class in college. Now I don't know how I had ever not been aware of this man. I love this book and his overall work. Some of my favorite poems from this collection are: The Pet Deer, Goodtime Jesus, and Neighbors. I was also lucky enough to have Tate come to my college last night and read some of his poems that have not yet been published. They are somewhat different from the ones in this book, but are ... Read More
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