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, 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.
Table of Content
Acknowledgements
Introduction
The Heart
Summer
Power in America
Death of a Grandmother
Adoration of the moon
The Talker
Mountain, Fire, Thornbush
The Prophet Announces
Exodus
Aleph
A Short History Feast of the Ram’s Horn
Spirit of Rabbi Nachman
Battle Report
News of the World
Monday
Past Time
Sunday Morning
ABC of Culture
Purities
Lines for the Ancient Scribe
The Night
The Six Hundred Thousand Letters
National Cold Storage Company
For WCW
Days and Nights
The Light is Sown
By the Women’s House of Detention
Sister
River Side Drive
Ditty
Where I Am Now
A Message From Rabbi Nachman Lines for Erwin R. Goodenough (1893-1965)
Cross Country
For Delmore Schwartz
From Martin Buber
Through the Boroughs
Notes at 46
Riding Westward
Saul’s Progress
Veteran
A Gift
Like a Beach
Muse Poem
City Portrait
47th Street
Cry of Small Rabbits
August
Domestic Matters
O Seasons
A Notebook
Musical Shuttle
A Realization
Lines
Things Seen
July
May
City
The Wish
Learning
On a Sunday
Brooklyn Heights
Cummings
Blue Eyes
The End
A Memorial
Saturday
Battlements
A Jerusalem Notebook
Two Cornell Deaths
Cynthia
These are the Streets
Celebrations
Questions
New York Summer
Meditations on a Brooklyn Bench
Lower East Side
Years Ago
Lessons
Lit Crit
Bible Lesson
For Paul Celan and Primo Levi
Loyalty
On Writing
Aubade
How it Ended
The Defense
In Tiberias
History
What It Feels Like
Remembering
Epitaph
Prague
949
Choices
Hart
Generations
The Ticket
Italy, 1996
Traveling Trough Ireland
About the author
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.
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