Call number
811 TAT
Collection
Publication
Ecco (1997), Edition: 1st, 72 pages
Description
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.
User reviews
LibraryThing member abirdman
After a couple of somewhat weak books (one of which won the National Book Award), this volume marks the return of James Tate in his full power to create funny, beautiful, and heartbreaking lyric poems that are an absolute pleasure to read.
LibraryThing member seanj
James Tate is weird and hilarious.
LibraryThing member jphamilton
I had to wait for this poetry collection to be shipped to me for quite some time. This was his some of his earlier poetry, and I am crazy for his later prose, freeform poems. These poems still reflected his wonderfully odd mind, quirky sense of humor, but were much more conventionally styled. They
Show More
were fun, but not quite as bizarre as his later poetry that I adore. Show Less
Pages
72
ISBN
0880015616 / 9780880015615