The first critical collection on the work of one of the most influential yet misunderstood American poets working today
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (1992) Winner of the William Carlos Williams Award (1992) The Selected Poems James Tate's Pulitzer Prize-winning collection and his first British publication, gathers work from nine previous books, ...
With The Government Lake, James Tate presents the work of a true master. The stunning, startling collection that is also the last work from a major poet A rat climbs onto the desk of a bored office worker.
At age sixteen, James Tate Hill was diagnosed with Leber’s hereditary optic neuropathy, a condition that left him legally blind.
The seventeenth book of verse from one of America's finest and most acclaimed contemporary poets, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award Capturing his inimitable voice–provocative, amusing, understated, and riotous all at ...
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.
This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more.
Memoir of the Hawk creates a world populated by hundreds of characters, believable and strange, tugged at the edges by the unexpected.
Masterfully 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."
This is the first monograph dedicated to Tate's oeuvre. The author provides a practical reading theory for Tate, complete with contextual frameworks.
Snead's nephew, Dewey, slept all day in a broken-down Plymouth Falcon in the backyard. He hung rags over the windows to keep the sun out. Benton went about his work in the yard as if Dewey didn't exist. Indeed, Mr. Snead wished he ex- ...