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Last Poems
The stunning, startling collection that is also the last work from a major poetA rat climbs onto the desk of a bored office worker. A family dog never stops coming back to life. Every prisoner on earth is freed. A man becomes friends with a bank robber who abducts him. A baby is born transparent.James Tate’s work, filled with unexpected turns and deadpan exaggeration, “fanciful and grave, mundane and transcendent” (New York Times), has been among the most defining and significant of our time. In his last collection, written before his death in 2015, Tate’s dark humor, his emotional acuity, and his keen ear are on full display in prose poems t…
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- ISBN: 978-0-06-291471-2
- EAN: 9780062914712
- Produktnummer: 28973235
- Verlag: Harper Collins (US)
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
- Seitenangabe: 96 S.
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James Tate was born in Kansas City, Missouri, in 1943. He is the author of seventeen books of poetry, including 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; and The Lost Pilot, which was selected by Dudley Fitts for the Yale Series of Younger Poets. He has also published a novel and a collection of short stories, as well as edited The 1997 Best American Poetry Anthology. His honors include a National Institute of Arts and Letters Award for Poetry, the Tanning Prize, the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. He teaches at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst.
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