Shroud of the Gnome

Speakers in James Tate's poems are and are not like those we know: a man's meditation on gardening renders him witless; another man traps theories and then lets them loose in a city park; a nun confides that "it was her / cowboy pride that got her through"; a gnome's friend inhabits a world where "a great eschatological ferment is at work. "Shroud of the Gnome" is a bravura performance in Tate's signature style: playful, wicked, deliriously sober, charming, and dazzling. Here, once again, one of America's most masterful poets celebrates the inexplicable in his own strange tongue.

Author: James Tate
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Ecco Press
Published: 07/22/1999
Pages: 96
Weight: 0.31lbs
Size: 8.22h x 5.50w x 0.31d
ISBN: 9780880015622


Award: Boston Book Review - Nominee