Worshipful Company of Fletchers: Poems - Hardcover

Tate, James

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 088001380X ISBN 13: 9780880013802

Publisher: Ecco Pr, 1994

Synopsis

Poems deal with growth, memory, the past, social systems, loyalty, religion, nature, mental states, home, and happiness

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Review:

..".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"

About the Author:

James Tate was born in Kansas City, Missouri, in 1943. He is the author of seventeen books of poetry, including 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; and The Lost Pilot, which was selected by Dudley Fitts for the Yale Series of Younger Poets. He has also published a novel and a collection of short stories, as well as edited The 1997 Best American Poetry Anthology. His honors include a National Institute of Arts and Letters Award for Poetry, the Tanning Prize, the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. He teaches at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst.

About this edition

• Publisher: Ecco Pr
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 088001380X
• ISBN 13: 9780880013802
• Binding: Hardcover