false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173290337m/268500.jpg 268500 2 A selection representative of 25 years of work and nine books, from Lost Pilot (1967) through Reckoner (1986), these poems showcase Tate's talent for surreal entertainment that reveals an underlying serious point. He writes: "I am surrounded by the pieces of this huge/puzzle: here's a piece I call my wife, and/ here's an odd one I call convictions, here's/ conventions, here's collisions, conflagrations . . . " In such high comedy Tate leaves lingering questions about the problems of existence, while leaving too a smile on the reader's face. The book won the 1992 Pulitzer Prize for poetry. 698488 15 3 1991 Selected Poems (Wesleyan Poetry) total:178|5:79|4:68|3:24|2:6|1:1| 178 752 237 10 0 0 false false Wed Dec 24 12:28:56 -0800 2008 Sun Dec 28 14:22:54 -0800 2008 3 0 false false Wed Aug 29 16:38:14 -0700 2007 Tue Sep 04 22:02:42 -0700 2007 The Lost Pilot).

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