James Tate
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Worshipful Company of Fletchers
James Tate
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. The book covers a vast range of images; a child’s shoe in the road, a word on the kitchen counter “next to the pitcher of cream / with its blue cornflowers bent,” a retired eland that “watches television from early morning until late at night.” But each image can exist only in the context of its poem, where it becomes something greater, where it underlines all that is elusive about human…
James Tate
An award-winning gathering of exquisite poems by a celebrated poet.
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…
