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Selected poems / James Tate.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Wesleyan poetryPublication details: [Middletown, Conn.] : Wesleyan University Press ; Hanover, NH : University Press of New England, c1991.Description: ix, 239 p. ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0819511927 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 0819521906 (alk. paper)
  • 9780819511928 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 9780819521903 (alk. paper)
Uniform titles:
  • Poems. Selections
Subject(s):
Contents:
From the lost pilot 1967 -- From the oblivion ha-ha 1970 -- From the hints to pilgrims 1971 -- From absences 1972 -- From hottentot ossuary 1974 -- From viper jazz 1976 -- From river doggeries 1979 -- From constant defender 1983 -- From reckoner 1986.
Awards:
  • Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, 1992.
Summary: An award-winning gathering of exquisite poems by a celebrated poet.
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Adult Book Adult Book Main Library NonFiction 811.54 T216 Available 33111008042059
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

An award-winning gathering of exquisite poems by a celebrated poet.

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (1992)
Winner of the William Carlos Williams Award (1992)

The Selected Poems James Tate's 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.

Series statement from jacket.

From the lost pilot 1967 -- From the oblivion ha-ha 1970 -- From the hints to pilgrims 1971 -- From absences 1972 -- From hottentot ossuary 1974 -- From viper jazz 1976 -- From river doggeries 1979 -- From constant defender 1983 -- From reckoner 1986.

An award-winning gathering of exquisite poems by a celebrated poet.

Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, 1992.

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