The Eternal Ones of the Dream: Selected Poems 1990-2010

James Tate

ISBN 10: 0062101862 / ISBN 13: 9780062101860

Published by Ecco, 2012

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Eternal Ones of the Dream: Selected Poems 1990-2010
• Publisher: Ecco
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0062101862
• ISBN 13: 9780062101860
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: New
• Seller catalogs:
  • POETRY

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Synopsis

"Tate's poems are meditative, introverted, self-reliant, funny, alarming, strange, difficult, intelligent, and beautifully crafted."
--New York Times

The Eternal Ones of the Dream is a breathtaking collection of poems from the last two decades of work of one of modern American poetry's major artists, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner James Tate. Tate's remarkable work--filled with dark wit, dry humor, and deceptive simplicity--is considered among the most accessible poetry written in the last several decades, and it has inspired acclaimed poet W.S. Merwin to write, "Mr. Tate's gift is such that many of [his] poems move me at least to plain envy of what he can do."

About the Author

James Tate was born in Kansas City, Missouri, in 1943. He is the author of sixteen books of poetry, including The Ghost Soldiers; Shroud of the Gnome; Worshipful Company of Fletchers, which won the National Book Award in 1994; Selected Poems, which won the Pulitzer Prize and the William Carlos Williams Award in 1991; Distance from Loved Ones; Reckoner; Constant Defender; Riven Doggeries; Viper Jazz ; Absences; Hints to Pilgrims; The Oblivion Ha-Ha; and The Lost Pilot, which was selected by Dudley Fitts for the Yale Series of Younger Poets. He has also published a novel, Lucky Darryl, and a collection of short stories, Hottentot Ossuary, and e