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    <body><![CDATA[New books by James Tate are always worth attention.  This one, though, seems special.  He’s found a resonant center for his flights of narrative: War.  Meanderings within a framework of war seem especially resonant for Tate.  In much the way that personal tragedy took Mary Jo Bang’s attention in...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18439948">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I like James Tate; his poetry typically reminds me what an organic process poem-making is. I've read a number of his previous books, and liked them all. But, to be honest, I was disappointed with this one. Even as a reader familiar with Tate's work and style, by midway through the book much of the w...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46714778">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Tate, the master of the contemporary prose poem, cranks up the tension in his newest bunch of poems simply by letting his odd array of characters go back and forth with their skewed and hilarious conversations. These dialogue-heavy wonders are dense with hilarious accidents, bittersweet bickerings, ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38974957">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[You should read these poems not for God but for yourself. These poems will make you happier. Because you've been cold and confused a long time now. Your feet are blistered and bloody. Your body trembles of exhaustion. God's servant, God's friend, God's saviour. What good are you without some rest? A...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39321627">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I think I'll call this Tate's magnum opus. Each poem is a different character wandering in the broken sensibilities of his or her own making. Like dreams, in this book the speakers walk out of their front doors to find themselves in alien landscapes they insist are familiar.  Exploring this insisten...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/30777854">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Think this is a better anti-war poem book than &quot;Poets against the War.&quot;  In its own way.<br/><br/>(Not that the details are there--but the abstract emotions, very realistic.)]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[a gift from my husband... anti-war poetry that's not your typical verse]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[maybe not as good as some of his others, but still, Tate is always the master.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[My only comment about this book is an explanation of why I stopped reading it. It's hard to describe the poems in this book: they are close to prose poems, haunting, folksy, and surreal, like disturbing dreams. The reason I stopped reading it is that the rhythms of his sentences got into my head and...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/33257079">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Finally.  <br/><br/>I must say, I'm being a little generous with two stars.  Several (or perhaps, even all) of these poems are extraordinary, but 50 pages would have been probably been enough to digest.  It was more than 200 pages.  It's like watching an evening of 5- to 10-minute long abstract Da...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19814917">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[James Tate's newest, disturbing, revealing, epiphantic prose poems.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[If you haven't cared for what James Tate's been up to since <em>Memoir of the Hawk</em>, this collection probably won't change your mind. But consider that Tate is doing things no one else is: these poems are so wildly original, so <em>sui generis</em>, that it may take another generation to fully assess their impact...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17333260">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[On first glance, this sort of looked like the poetry equivalent to Gabe Hudson's Dear Mr. President. And sure, there is a little bit more politics thrown in, but what really makes this collection stand out is that each poem is like a little screenplay or movie scene. They're very dialogue heavy and ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17325902">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Some of the better poetry I've read in the past year.  It's so unusual.  Sometimes I get spooked by what he writes and have to stop and walk around a bit.  It's not that he writes about something scary or morbid, but you get this feeling of something immense hovering around you, in your presence.  I...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/32266513">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was really surprised when the book's theme came through. Much more united than I originally thought and it definitely helps the book]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Poems, it says on the front of the dust jacket.  I'm not so sure.  Maybe fables?  Modern fairy tales?  Where's the music?  Where's the compression of thought?  There are not enough diamonds in this rough.  I think the old emperor might be missing a piece or two of clothing.  ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[i shelled out the $$ for this one and i have to say that this is the best batch of poems i've read by tate. it refreshing to see writers of his stature actually putting out something that isn't complete tripe. can't wait to hear him read and shake his hand. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[He keeps improving in my opinion.  I just can't wait until the next book comes out.  This was solid all the way through.  A perfect read.  I lent my copy to Dirk already.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Tate's world is getting darker. People are waiting in the woods.  Part of the world disappears.  The humor is still there, but he speaks of the threats we fear around us. <br/>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;Do you believe in God?&quot; I said. &quot;God's in prison,&quot; he said. &quot;What'd he do?&quot; I said. &quot;Everything,&quot; he said. -from &quot;Desperate Talk&quot; by James Tate]]></body>
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