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Tate, James Vincent was born on December 8, 1943 in Kansas City, Missouri, United States. Son of Samuel Vincent Appleby and Betty Jean Whitsitt.
(The Oblivion Ha-Ha, a collection of sixty recent poems by...)
The Oblivion Ha-Ha, a collection of sixty recent poems by James Tate, exemplifies his chosen style, and all its liabilities. Laconic, subtle, anesthetized, Tate's work depends on the distorted image, on words that enact disturbing leaps.... The metaphor becomes a clever joke, where things appear as other things; what I find unnerving about all this is that the precision of symbolism has broken down, the clarity that graced its former usage tempered by ennui. Tate's pose is largely cynical, the voice in his poems casual, bored.
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("The Lost Pilot" is a poem about bereavement and the many...)
"The Lost Pilot" is a poem about bereavement and the many improvisations that the heart performs as it seeks a way to hope and to live again after a shattering loss. The poet confronts a literal and figurative void as he mourns the disappearance of a father he never knew. Denied, by the unique and violent circumstances of his pilot-father's wartime death (1944 was the most terrible year of World War II), the consolations of a conventional funeral ritual, he is also denied the consolations of fond memory, as he has virtually no memories of his father at all. Without memories, the poet is forced to the abstract extreme of grief, an extreme at which his actions become the most vivid imaginable representations of the uncertainties and anxieties of human grief.
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( In his fourteenth collection of poetry, Pulitzer Prize ...)
In his fourteenth collection of poetry, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner James Tate continues exploring his own peculiar brand of poetry, transforming our everyday world, a world where women give birth to wolves, wild babies are found in gardens, and Saint Nick visits on a hot July day. Tate's signature style draws on a marvelous variety of voices and characters, all of which sound vaguely familiar, but are each fantastically unique, brilliant, and eccentric. Yet, as Charles Simic observed in the New York Review of Books, "With all his reliance on chance, Tate has a serious purpose. He's searching for a new way to write a lyric poem." He continues, "To write a poem out of nothing at all is Tate's genius. For him, the poem is something one did not know was there until it was written down. . . . Just about anything can happen next in this kind of poetry and that is its attraction. . . . Tate is not worried about leaving us a little dazed. . . . He succeeds in ways for which there are a few precedents. He makes me think that anti-poetry is the best friend poetry ever had."
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(Memoir of the Hawk creates a world populated by hundreds ...)
Memoir of the Hawk creates a world populated by hundreds of characters, believable and strange, tugged at the edges by the unexpected. In the privacy of their homes, who can save them from themselves? In the forests and hills and on the beautiful lakes, what could possibly be wrong? Even in the sweet hometown, with its kindly police, menace lurks in a thousand disguises. Mystery and magic surround this metropolis of the imagination. Once again, James Tate has given us a world of surprising pleasures: . . . lost in the interstellar space between teacups in the cupboard, found in the beak of a downy woodpecker, the lovers staring into the void and then jumping over it, flying into their beautiful tomorrows like the heroes of a storm.
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(Poems deal with history, art, the relationship between me...)
Poems deal with history, art, the relationship between men and women, nature, death, and marriage from American poet James Tate who was born in Kansas City, Missouri, in 1943. He is the author of fifteen books of poetry, including "Shroud of the Gnome"; "Worshipful Company of Fletchers", which won the National Book Award in 1994; "Selected Poems", which won the Pulitzer Prize and the William Carlos Williams Award in 1991; "Distance from Loved Ones"; "Reckoner"; "Constant Defender"; "Riven Doggeries"; "Viper Jazz"; "Absences"; "Hints to Pilgrims"; "The Oblivion Ha-Ha"; and "The Lost Pilot", which was selected by Dudley Fitts for the Yale Series of Younger Poets. In addition to his poetry, Tate has also published two books of prose, "Dreams of a Robot Dancing Bee" and "The Route as Briefed", and edited "The Best American Poetry 1997". His honors include a National Institute of Arts and Letters Award for Poetry, the Tanning Prize, and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts.
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Tate, James Vincent was born on December 8, 1943 in Kansas City, Missouri, United States. Son of Samuel Vincent Appleby and Betty Jean Whitsitt.
Bachelor, Kansas State College, 1965. Master of Fine Arts, University Iowa, 1967.
Instructor University Iowa, Iowa City, 1966-1967. Visiting lecturer University California, Berkeley, 1967-1968. Assistant professor English Columbia University, New York City, 1969-1971.
From associate professor to district university professor English University Massachusetts, Amherst, since 1971. Poet-in-residence Emerson College, 1970-1971. Consultant Coordinator Council Literary Magazines, 1971-1974, Kentucky Arts Commission, 1979.
Member Bollingen Prize Committee, 1974-1975. Poetry editor Dickinson Review, 1967-1976. Trustee, associate editor Pym-Randall Pr., 1968-1980.
Associate editor Barn Dream Pr.
( In his fourteenth collection of poetry, Pulitzer Prize ...)
(Poems deal with history, art, the relationship between me...)
("The Lost Pilot" is a poem about bereavement and the many...)
(Memoir of the Hawk creates a world populated by hundreds ...)
(The Oblivion Ha-Ha, a collection of sixty recent poems by...)
(Clear and insightful poetry on our relationship to the gi...)
(Book by Tate, James)
(Book by Tate, James)
(Hardcover. Signed 1st edition. Dust jacket in Brodart cover.)