{"title":"James Tate","description":"JAMES TATE grew up in Kansas City, Missouri. He is the author of The Lost Pilot (1967), The Oblivion Ha-Ha (1970), Hints to Pilgrims (1971), Absences (1972), Viper Jazz (1976), Riven Doggeries (1979), Constant Defenders (1983), and Reckoner (1986). He teaches at the University of Massachusetts and lives in Amherst.","products":[{"product_id":"the-ghost-soldiers-paperback","title":"The Ghost Soldiers - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this, his fifteenth collection of poetry, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet James Tate continues doing what he does best. His poems are evocative, provocative, funny, subtle, eccentric, occasionally disturbing, and wildly outrageous. Tate′s surrealist style strikes its own utterly new and original note in American poetry; as Charles Simic has observed, \"To write a poem out of nothng at all is Tate′s genius...Just about anything can happen next in this kind of poetry and that is its attraction...He makes me think that anti-poetry is the best friend poetry ever had.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Father′s Day\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e My daughter has lived overseas for a number\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e of years now. She married into royalty, and they\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e won′t let her communicate with any of her family or \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e friends. She lives on birdseed and a few sips\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e of water. She dreams of me constantly. Her husband, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e the Prince, whips her when he catches her dreaming.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Fierce guard dogs won′t let her out of their sight.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e I hired a detective, but he was killed trying to\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e rescue her. I have written hundreds of letters\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e to the State Department. They have written back \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e saying that they are aware of the situation. I\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e never saw her dance. I was always away at some\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e convention. I never saw her sing. I was always\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e working late. I called her My Princess, to make\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e up for my shortcomings, and she never forgave me.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Birdseed was her middle name.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this, his fifteenth collection of poetry, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet James Tate continues doing what he does best. His poems are evocative, provocative, funny, subtle, eccentric, occasionally disturbing, and wildly outrageous. Tate′s surrealist style strikes its own utterly new and original note in American poetry; as Charles Simic has observed, \"To write a poem out of nothng at all is Tate′s genius...Just about anything can happen next in this kind of poetry and that is its attraction...He makes me think that anti-poetry is the best friend poetry ever had.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Father′s Day\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e My daughter has lived overseas for a number\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e of years now. She married into royalty, and they\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e won′t let her communicate with any of her family or \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e friends. She lives on birdseed and a few sips\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e of water. She dreams of me constantly. Her husband, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e the Prince, whips her when he catches her dreaming.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Fierce guard dogs won′t let her out of their sight.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e I hired a detective, but he was killed trying to\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e rescue her. I have written hundreds of letters\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e to the State Department. They have written back \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e saying that they are aware of the situation. I\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e never saw her dance. I was always away at some\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e convention. I never saw her sing. I was always\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e working late. I called her My Princess, to make\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e up for my shortcomings, and she never forgave me.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Birdseed was her middle name.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51376105193695,"sku":"9780061756078","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/uwZw-nuf9r9780061756078.webp?v=1789214205"},{"product_id":"worshipful-company-of-fletchers-paperback","title":"Worshipful Company of Fletchers - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eMasterfully drawing on a variety of voices and characters, James Tate joyfully offers his first book since winning the Pulitzer Prize in 1992 for his \"Selected Poems.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eMasterfully drawing on a variety of voices and characters, James Tate joyfully offers his first book since winning the Pulitzer Prize in 1992 for his \"Selected Poems.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51376587145439,"sku":"9780880014311","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/GxFr9T4eXH9780880014311.webp?v=1789218093"},{"product_id":"return-to-the-city-of-white-donkeys-poems-paperback","title":"Return to the City of White Donkeys: Poems - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYet, 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.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYet, 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.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51378175639775,"sku":"9780060750022","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/n0-SBErggc9780060750022.webp?v=1789250774"},{"product_id":"memoir-of-the-hawk-poems-paperback","title":"Memoir of the Hawk: Poems - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMemoir 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: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e... 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.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMemoir 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: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e... 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.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51378180489439,"sku":"9780060935436","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/2wEqUXiSHg9780060935436.webp?v=1789250786"},{"product_id":"the-eternal-ones-of-the-dream-selected-poems-1990-2010-paperback","title":"The Eternal Ones of the Dream: Selected Poems 1990 - 2010 - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Tate's poems are meditative, introverted, self-reliant, funny, alarming, strange, difficult, intelligent, and beautifully crafted.\" \u003cbr\u003e--\u003cem\u003eNew York Times \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Eternal Ones of the Dream\u003c\/em\u003e is a breathtaking collection of poems from the last two decades of work of one of modern American poetry's major artists, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner James Tate. Tate's remarkable work--filled with dark wit, dry humor, and deceptive simplicity--is considered among the most accessible poetry written in the last several decades, and it has inspired acclaimed poet W.S. Merwin to write, \"Mr. Tate's gift is such that many of [his] poems move me at least to plain envy of what he can do.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA breathtaking collection of work from 1990 to 2010 by Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner James Tate \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJames Tate's poems are evocative, provocative, funny, subtle, eccentric, occasionally disturbing, and wildly outrageous. His surrealist style strikes its own utterly new and original note in American poetry, transforming our everyday world into sublime burlesque--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 deeply particular.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Eternal Ones of the Dream\u003c\/em\u003e features Tate's work from the last two decades, selected from seven books of poetry. The poems span from 1990's \u003cem\u003eDistance from Loved Ones\u003c\/em\u003e to 2009's \u003cem\u003eThe Ghost Soldiers\u003c\/em\u003e, showcasing the impressive breadth of talent. As W. S. Merwin said of Tate, Mr. Tate's gift is such that many of [his] poems move me at least to plain envy of what he can do.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA breathtaking collection of work from 1990 to 2010 by Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner James Tate \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJames Tate's poems are evocative, provocative, funny, subtle, eccentric, occasionally disturbing, and wildly outrageous. His surrealist style strikes its own utterly new and original note in American poetry, transforming our everyday world into sublime burlesque--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 deeply particular.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Eternal Ones of the Dream\u003c\/em\u003e features Tate's work from the last two decades, selected from seven books of poetry. The poems span from 1990's \u003cem\u003eDistance from Loved Ones\u003c\/em\u003e to 2009's \u003cem\u003eThe Ghost Soldiers\u003c\/em\u003e, showcasing the impressive breadth of talent. As W. S. Merwin said of Tate, \"Mr. Tate's gift is such that many of [his] poems move me at least to plain envy of what he can do.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51378189861087,"sku":"9780062101860","price":22.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/8PuCGj-P5P9780062101860.webp?v=1789250808"},{"product_id":"dome-of-the-hidden-pavilion-new-poems-paperback","title":"Dome of the Hidden Pavilion: New Poems - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe seventeenth book of verse from one of America's finest and most acclaimed contemporary poets--winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCapturing his inimitable voice--provocative, amusing, understated, and riotous all at once--the poems in \u003cem\u003eDome of the Hidden Pavilion\u003c\/em\u003e demonstrate James Tate at his finest. Innovative and fresh, they range in subject from a talking blob to a sobering reminiscence of a war and its aftereffects.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThough they are diverse in scope, a theme of dialogue and communication--and often miscommunication--links these poems. Accessible yet subtly surrealist, filled with dark wit, dry humor, and a deceptive simplicity, \u003cem\u003eDome of the Hidden Pavilion\u003c\/em\u003e confirms Tate's continuing relevance as one of the most celebrated American poets of the modern age.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe seventeenth book of poetry from one of America's finest and most acclaimed contemporary poets\u003c\/p\u003eCapturing his inimitable voice-provocative, amusing, understated, and riotous-the poems in \u003cem\u003eDome of the Hidden Pavilion \u003c\/em\u003edemonstrate James Tate at his finest. Though they are diverse in scope, a theme of dialogue and communication-and often miscommunication-links these poems. Accessible yet surreal, filled with dark wit, dry humor, and a deceptive simplicity, \u003cem\u003eDome of the Hidden Pavilion\u003c\/em\u003e confirms Tate's place as one of the most significant American poets of the modern age.--\u003cem\u003eBoston Globe\u003c\/em\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe seventeenth book of poetry from one of America's finest and most acclaimed contemporary poets\u003c\/p\u003eCapturing his inimitable voice-provocative, amusing, understated, and riotous-the poems in \u003cem\u003eDome of the Hidden Pavilion \u003c\/em\u003edemonstrate James Tate at his finest. Though they are diverse in scope, a theme of dialogue and communication-and often miscommunication-links these poems. Accessible yet surreal, filled with dark wit, dry humor, and a deceptive simplicity, \u003cem\u003eDome of the Hidden Pavilion\u003c\/em\u003e confirms Tate's place as one of the most significant American poets of the modern age.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51378194907359,"sku":"9780062399212","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/aThl5MWZeU9780062399212.webp?v=1789250820"},{"product_id":"selected-poems-paperback-17","title":"Selected Poems - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn award-winning gathering of exquisite poems by a celebrated poet.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (1992)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the William Carlos Williams Award (1992)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51378329518303,"sku":"9780819511928","price":21.55,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/gK8_fmmbrA9780819511928.webp?v=1789254414"},{"product_id":"the-government-lake-last-poems-paperback","title":"The Government Lake: Last Poems - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe stunning, startling collection that is also the last work from a major poet \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA woman named Mildred starts laying eggs after feathers from wild poultry begin coming down the chimney. A man becomes friends with a bank robber who abducts him and eventually rues his captor's death. 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In his last collection before his death in 2015, Tate's dark yet whimsical humor, his emotional acuity, and his keen ear for the absurd are on full display in prose poems that finely constructed and lyrical, surrealistic and provocative. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith \u003cem\u003eThe Government Lake\u003c\/em\u003e, James Tate reminds us why he is one of the great poets of our age and one of the true masters of the form. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe stunning, startling collection that is also the last work from a major poet\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA rat climbs onto the desk of a bored office worker. A family dog never stops coming back to life. Every prisoner on earth is freed. A man becomes friends with a bank robber who abducts him. A baby is born transparent.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJames Tate's work, filled with unexpected turns and deadpan exaggeration, \"fanciful and grave, mundane and transcendent\" (\u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e), has been among the most defining and significant of our time. In his last collection, written before his death in 2015, Tate's dark humor, his emotional acuity, and his keen ear are on full display in prose poems that are finely constructed, lyrical, and provocative.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith \u003cem\u003eThe Government Lake\u003c\/em\u003e, James Tate reminds us why he is one of the great poets of our age and a true master.\u003c\/p\u003e--John Ashbery\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe stunning, startling collection that is also the last work from a major poet\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA rat climbs onto the desk of a bored office worker. 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