The stunning, startling collection that is also the last work from a major poetA rat climbs onto the desk of a bored office worker. A family dog never stops coming back to life. Every prisoner on earth is freed. A man becomes friends with a bank robber who abducts him. A baby is born transparent.James Tate’s work, filled with unexpected turns and deadpan exaggeration, “fanciful and grave, mundane and transcendent” (New York Times), has been among the most defining and significant of our time. In his last collection, written before his death in 2015, Tate’s dark humor, his emotional acuity, and his keen ear are on full display in prose poems that are finely constructed, lyrical, and provocative.With The Government Lake, James Tate reminds us why he is one of the great poets of our age and a true master.
| Autor: | Tate, James |
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| ISBN: | 9780062914712 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Produktart: | Gebunden |
| Verlag: | Harper Collins (US) |
| Veröffentlicht: | 02.07.2019 |
| Untertitel: | Last Poems |
| Schlagworte: | LITERATURE: POETRY POETRY: American / General POETRY: Epic POETRY: Haiku * POETRY: Medieval POETRY: POETS: H TO Z POETRY: Subjects & Themes / Death, Grief, Loss POETRY: Subjects & Themes / Love & Erotica POETRY: Subjects & Themes / Nature |
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.