The Selected Poems James Tate's Pulitzer Prize-winning collection and his first British publication, gathers work from nine previous books, from th...
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Jun 15, 2011
Mza
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Racing through this one in a couple days probably didn't do myself or the author a favour, but it's a library book, I had to. Tate's a favourite poet of some of my favourite poets -- it was fun to hear bits of their voices in his voice and, as an inexperienced reader of poetry, to speculate more generally about the lineage of poetic influence that has led to what I think of as the modern sound of poetry in the Internet Age. In my make-believe lineage, James Tate's an important giant. Whatever
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Apr 06, 2011
Bojan
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I came across James Tate's poetry in an anthology of Prose Poems, and immediately fell in love with his style. That has spurred me on to get a representative collection of his writing, and by and large I have not been disappointed. This is a wonderful book, with some of the most imaginative use of images and language that I have come across. However, I believe that Tate's prose poems are superior to the rest of his writings, and would really like to read a collection of those. Overall, however,
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Dec 28, 2008
Any connection between freely associated images is a whimsical, hokey surrealist illusion.
Sep 04, 2007
Gary
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I'm hit or miss with Tate. Read this the last few nights, and I'm still not sure with him. I seem to resonate more with the early stuff, especially the first two books (I LOVE The Lost Pilot).
I do like a lot of his prose poems, but so much of the lineated stuff could just as well be in prose... at least to my tin ear.
I do like a lot of his prose poems, but so much of the lineated stuff could just as well be in prose... at least to my tin ear.
Jun 27, 2008
Jeffrey
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I'm not quite in the James Tate arena . . . but close. I love the wordsmith, the abstract, the insight, the originality, even the quirkiness (can I say that?), but I'm sorry, he's not Chalres Simic. I guess it all begins with Simic and goes from there, even if Tate has won the Pulitzer.
May 31, 2008
cindy
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I'm reading it again and it's still so good. He should get more credit for changing the voice of poetry. I think Dean Young should thank him and all the fancy boys-with-attitude poets, I guess girls too, publishing now... funny, sarcastic and heart-breaking all at once.
Feb 11, 2008
Nate
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i am reading this again because he was just in my bar last week. it made me get a BA in poetry
Dec 17, 2009
Jenni
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Surreal and fresh. I think he's doing some of the most interesting, and original writing today.
Feb 06, 2008
Shannon
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James Tate is a really fun poet. I really like him. I like the poet's mind.
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