Hell, I Love Everybody
The Essential James Tate
New York, NY : Ecco an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2023], ©2023.
Format: Book
Edition: First edition.
Description: xiii, 93 pages ; 19 cm
An essential collection of James Tate's extraordinary poems that will captivate today's readers, with a foreword by Terrance Hayes. Celebrating James Tate's work as it transcends convention, time, and everything that tells us, "No, you can't do that," Hell, I Love Everybody gives us the poet at his best, his most intimate, hopeful, inventive, and brilliant. John Ashbery called Tate the "poet of possibilities," and this collection records forays into possibilities for American poetry's future. With a foreword by Terrance Hayes, it is sure to give readers new and old a lasting collection of favorites.
Other Authors:
Barrois/Dixon, Dara, 1949- editor.
Pettit, Emily, editor.
Hayes, Terrance, writer of foreword.
Lindroos, Kate, editor.
Barrois/Dixon, Dara, 1949- editor.
Pettit, Emily, editor.
Hayes, Terrance, writer of foreword.
Lindroos, Kate, editor.
Contents:
Goodtime Jesus -- The Blue Booby -- The Promotion -- Consumed -- Rapture -- Read the Great Poets -- How the Pope Is Chosen -- The Rules -- My Felisberto -- Neighbors -- The Painter of the Night -- The Cowboy -- Worshipful Company of Fletchers -- I Am a Finn -- I Am Still a Finn -- The Formal Invitation -- Uneasy about the Sounds of Some Night-Wandering Animal -- Dear Reader -- I Left My Couch in Tatamagouche -- My Great Great Etc. Uncle Patrick Henry -- Teaching the Ape to Write Poems -- The List of Famous Hats -- Distance from Loved Ones -- Go, Youth -- Loyalty -- Where Babies Come From -- Never Again the Same -- Toads Talking by a River -- Torture -- The Bookclub -- Of Whom Am I Afraid? -- A Largely Questioning Article Offering Few Answers -- The Rules -- Roscoe's Farewell -- Shroud of the Gnome -- Finding Out Something in a Cafe -- Suffering Bastards -- The Rally -- Lewis and Clark Overheard in Conversation -- Wild Beasts -- The Ice Cream Man -- The War Next Door -- Everything But Thomas -- It Happens Like This -- The Eternal Ones of the Dream -- Stray Animals -- Pastoral Scene -- The Lost Pilot -- Quabbin Reservoir -- Dream On -- I Sat at My Desk and Contemplated All That I Had Accomplished -- Rescue.
Subjects:
American poetry -- 20th century.
American poetry -- 21st century.
Prose poems, American.
Quality of life -- Poetry.
Loss (Psychology) -- Poetry.
Grief -- Poetry.
American poetry.
Poetry.
American poetry -- 20th century.
American poetry -- 21st century.
Prose poems, American.
Quality of life -- Poetry.
Loss (Psychology) -- Poetry.
Grief -- Poetry.
American poetry.
Poetry.
ISBN:
9780063306073
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
LITERATURE Poetry Tat | Wheatley (Shandon) | Nonfiction | In |