Worshipful Company of Fletchers
James Tate
(Author)
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Description
Masterfully drawing on a variety of voices and characters, James Tate joyfully offers his first book since winning the Pulitzer Prize in 1992 for his "Selected Poems."
Product Details
Price
$17.99
$16.73
Publisher
Ecco Press
Publish Date
December 01, 1995
Pages
96
Dimensions
5.48 X 8.28 X 0.32 inches | 0.25 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9780880014311
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James Tate's poems have been awarded the National Book Award, the Pulitzer
Prize, the Wallace Stevens Award, the William Carlos Williams Award, the Yale
Younger Poets Award, and the National Institute of Arts and Letters Award, and
have been translated across the globe. Tate was a member of the American
Academy of Arts and Letters; his many collections include The Lost Pilot, The
Oblivion Ha-Ha, Absences, Distance from Loved Ones, Worshipful Company
of Fletchers, and The Ghost Soldiers. Born in Kansas City, Missouri, he made his
home in Pelham, Massachusetts.
Reviews
..".Mr. Tate's gift is such that many of [his] poems move me at least to plain envy of what he can do."-- W.S. Merwin"[James Tate] never ceases to astonish, dismay, delight, confuse, tickle, and generally improve the quality of our lives."-- John Ashbery"Tate's poems are meditative, introverted, self-reliant, funny, alarming, strange, difficult, intelligent, and beautifully crafted. He is an impressive writer whose process of imaginative growth is through that deliberate extinction of personality which T.S. Eliot called for as the indispensable means of turning a man or woman of powerful personality into a writer of powerful poems."-- "New York Times Book Review""Tate is a pure and unique American poet....His new book is as fresh and moving as his appreciators have come to expect. "Worshipful Company of Fletchers" is one of the best examples of sharp-as-a-tack contemporary American languageliveliness you're likely to find on bookshelves these days, and it has the added advantage of not being soulless."-- "Los Angeles Times Book Review"