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title | : | Selected Poems [Wesleyan Poetry] |
author | : | Tate, James. |
publisher | : | Wesleyan University Press |
isbn10 | asin | : | 0819511927 |
print isbn13 | : | 9780819511928 |
ebook isbn13 | : | 9780585388465 |
language | : | English |
subject | Poetry--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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