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The Selected Poems James Tates 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.

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title Selected Poems Wesleyan Poetry author Tate James - photo 1
title:Selected Poems [Wesleyan Poetry]
author:Tate, James.
publisher:Wesleyan University Press
isbn10 | asin:0819511927
print isbn13:9780819511928
ebook isbn13:9780585388465
language:English
subjectPoetry--Selections, Poems.
publication date:1991
lcc:PS3570.A8A6 1991eb
ddc:811/.54
subject:Poetry--Selections, Poems.

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Selected Poems

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Other books by James Tate

The Lost Pilot

The Oblivion Ha-Ha

Hints to Pilgrims

Absences

Hottentot Ossuary

Viper Jazz

Riven Doggeries

Constant Defender

Reckoner

Distance from Loved Ones

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James Tate


Selected
Poems

W E S L E Y A N U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S S
Published by University Press of New England / Hanover & London

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WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY PRESS
Published by University Press of New England,
Hanover, NH 03755

1991 by James Tate
All rights reserved

Printed in the United States of America 10 9 8 7 6
CIP data appear at the end of the book

The Lost Pilot , Yale University Press, 1967; Ecco Press, 1982; included by permission of Ecco Press. The Oblivion Ha-Ha , Unicorn Press, 1970; included by permission. Hints to Pilgrims , University of Massachusetts Press, 1971; included by permission. Absences , Atlantic Monthly Press, 1972; Carnegie Mellon University Press, 1990. Hottentot Ossuary , Temple Bar Press, 1974. Viper Jazz , Wesleyan University Press, 1976; included by permission. River Doggeries , Ecco Press, 1979; included by permission. Constant Defender , Ecco Press, 1983; included by permission. Reckoner , Wesleyan University Press, 1986; included by permission.

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CONTENTS

I from The Lost Pilot (1967)

Manna

The Book of Lies

Coming Down Cleveland Avenue

Reapers of the Water

Epithalamion for Tyler

For Mother on Father's Day

In a Town for Which I Know No Name

Success Comes to Cow Creek

Why I Will Not Get Out of Bed

Graveside

The Lost Pilot

Intimidations of an Autobiography

The End of the Line

The Move

Flight

Grace

The Last Days of April

Uncle

How the Friends Met

Tragedy Comes to the Bad Lands

Aunt Edna

Rescue

The Mirror

The Tabernacle

Late Harvest

Today I Am Falling

II from The Oblivion Ha-Ha (1970)

Poem (High in Hollywood Hills a door opens)

Rape in the Engineering Building

The Blue Booby

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The Pet Deer

Up Here

Prose Poem

Coda

The Tryst

Pity Ascending with the Fog

Pride's Crossing

The Indian Undertaker

The Initiation

Consumed

Shadowboxing

Images of Little Compton, Rhode Island

From the Hole

The Trap

Twilight Sustenance Hiatus

The Wheelchair Butterfly

It's Not the Heat So Much as the Humidity

The Eagle Exterminating Company

The President Slumming

Failed Tribute to the Stonemason of Tor House, Robinson Jeffers

Conjuring Roethke

Dear Reader

III from Hints to Pilgrims (1971)

Recipe for Sleep

Brother of the Unknown Ancient Man

When the Nomads Come Over the Hill

Poem (A silence that tunnels forever)

I Take Back All My Kisses

Frivolous Blind Death Child

Alternatives

Amnesia People

Fuck the Astronauts

Lewis and Clark Overheard in Conversation

IV from Absences (1972)

Contagion

Breathing

The Distant Orgasm

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The Private Intrigue of Melancholy

A Guide to the Stone Age

Wait for Me

The Delicate Riders

If You Would Disappear at Sea

My Girl

Absences

South End

My Great Great Etc. Uncle Patrick Henry

Deaf Girl Playing

First Lesson

The Soup of Venus

The Immortals

Teaching the Ape to Write Poems

Man with Wooden Leg Escapes Prison

Saint John of the Cross in Prison

Cycle of Dust

V from Hottentot Ossuary (1974)

Waking

Deadlines

Leaping Woman

The Hostile Philharmonic Orchestra

VI from Viper Jazz (1976)

Poem (I Can't Speak for the Wind)

Sensitive Ears

A Voyage from Stockholm to Take Advantage of Lower Prices on the Finnish Island of land

Alfonso Lacklustre

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