Selected Poems

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.

Author: James Tate
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Published: 06/14/1991
Series: Wesleyan Poetry
Pages: 250
Weight: 0.79lbs
Size: 9.10h x 5.50w x 0.74d
ISBN: 9780819511928


Award: Pulitzer Prize - Winner