<div>The Pulitzer Prize-winning collection of exquisite poems by &ldquo;a poet of mad wit and stunning anecdote. Tate is now in the fullness of his powers&rdquo; (Julian Moynahan, author of Sisters and Brothers). Selected Poems, James Tate&rsquo;s award-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. &ldquo;This volume performs a valuable service by drawing together the best of Tate&rsquo;s work from many individual collections, some of them now quite rare. It allows us finally to take the measure of his genius: passionate, humane, funny, tragic, and always surprising and mind-delighting. Not unexpectedly, it confirms his standing as one of the finest voices of his generation&rdquo; &mdash;John Ashbery, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet &ldquo;He has the rare ability to be very, very funny on the page.&rdquo; &mdash;The New York Times Book Review</div>

Selected Poems

<div>The seventeenth book of verse from one of America&#8217;s finest and most acclaimed contemporary poets&#8212;winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award.Capturing his inimitable voice&#8212;provocative, amusing, understated, and riotous all at once&#8212;the poems in Dome of the Hidden Pavilion demonstrate James Tate at his finest. Innovative and fresh, they range in subject from a talking blob to a sobering reminiscence of a war and its aftereffects.Though they are diverse in scope, a theme of dialogue and communication&#8212;and often miscommunication&#8212;links these poems. Accessible yet subtly surrealist, filled with dark wit, dry humor, and a deceptive simplicity, Dome of the Hidden Pavilion confirms Tate&#8217;s continuing relevance as one of the most celebrated American poets of the modern age.</div>

Dome of the Hidden Pavilion

<div> Pulitzer Prize&ndash;winning poet James Tate returns with his fifteenth book of poetry, an exciting new collection that offers nearly one hundred fresh and thought-provoking pieces that embody Tate&#39;s trademark style and voice: his accessibility, his dark humor, and his exquisite sense of the absurd. Tate&#39;s work is stark&mdash;he writes in clear, everyday language&mdash;yet his seemingly simple and macabre stories are layered with broad and trenchant meaning. His characters are often lost or confused, his settings bizarre, his scenarios brilliantly surreal. Opaque, inscrutable people float through a dreamlike world where nothing is as it seems. The Ghost Soldiers offers resounding proof, once again, that Tate stands alone in American poetry. </div>

The Ghost Soldiers

<div>The stunning, startling collection that is also the last work from a major poet A woman named Mildred starts laying eggs after feathers from wild poultry begin coming down the chimney. A man becomes friends with a bank robber who abducts him and eventually rues his captor&#8217;s death. A baby is born transparent. James Tate&#8217;s work, filled with unexpected turns and deadpan exaggeration, &#8220;fanciful and grave, mundane and transcendent,&#8221; (New York Times) has been among the most defining and significant of our time. In his last collection before his death in 2015, Tate&#8217;s dark yet whimsical humor, his emotional acuity, and his keen ear for the absurd are on full display in prose poems that finely constructed and lyrical, surrealistic and provocative. With The Government Lake, James Tate reminds us why he is one of the great poets of our age and one of the true masters of the form. </div>

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Books By James Tate (4 Books)

Selected Poems

Dome of the Hidden Pavilion

The Ghost Soldiers

The Government Lake

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