Speakers in James Tate's poems are and are not like those we know: a man's meditation on gardening renders him witless; another man traps theories and then lets them loose in a city park; a nun confides that "it was her / cowboy pride that got her through"; a gnome's friend inhabits a world where "a great eschatological ferment is at work. "Shroud of the Gnome" is a bravura performance in Tate's signature style: playful, wicked, deliriously sober, charming, and dazzling. Here, once again, one of America's most masterful poets celebrates the inexplicable in his own strange tongue.
| Autor: | Tate, James |
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| ISBN: | 9780880015622 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Produktart: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Verlag: | Harper Collins (US) |
| Veröffentlicht: | 22.07.1999 |
| Schlagworte: | POETRY: American / General POETRY: General |
James Tate's poems have been awarded the National Book Award, the PulitzerPrize, the Wallace Stevens Award, the William Carlos Williams Award, the YaleYounger Poets Award, and the National Institute of Arts and Letters Award, andhave been translated across the globe. Tate was a member of the AmericanAcademy of Arts and Letters; his many collections include The Lost Pilot, TheOblivion Ha-Ha, Absences, Distance from Loved Ones, Worshipful Companyof Fletchers, and The Ghost Soldiers. Born in Kansas City, Missouri, he made hishome in Pelham, Massachusetts.