Tate James

A series of prose poems takes an absurdist view of everyday life and examines the journey towards its inevitable end.

Pulitzer Prize-winning poet James Tate returns with his fifteenth book of poetry, an exciting new collection that offers nearly one hundred fresh and thought-provoking pieces that embody Tate's trademark style and voice: his accessibility, his dark humor, and his exquisite sense of the absurd. Tate's work is stark-he writes in clear, everyday language-yet his seemingly simple and macabre stories are layered with broad and trenchant meaning. His characters...

An essential collection of James Tate's extraordinary poems that will captivate today's readers, with an introduction by Terrance Hayes. Celebrating James Tate's work as it transcends convention, time, and everything that tells us, "No, you can't do that," Hell, I Love Everybody gives us the poet at his best, his most intimate, hopeful, inventive, and brilliant. John Ashbery called Tate the "poet of possibilities," and this collection records forays...

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Speakers in James Tate's poems are not like those we know: a man's meditation on gardening renders him witless, another 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".

A corrupt King. A murdered Queen. A missing Princess ... Found. Once upon a time, The Royal Trials were a sacred ritual designed for a queen to select her king. But nothing is as it was in the kingdom of Tiech. Not since the brutal murder of beloved Queen Ophelia. The town of Ironforge revealed important secrets, but it all came at an unbearable cost. The streets run red with the blood of innocents and Rybet's heart is heavy as she returns to Lakehaven. Facing...

Three trials. Three weeks. Three Royal Princes. It should have been an easy task, for a skilled mercenary like Rybet Waise. Simply break into the royal palace, and rescue her friend from the executioner's block. But when Rybet accidentally qualifies for the Trials, she finds herself with little choice but to see them through. A thin veil of etiquette, elegance, and glamour hides the true nature of the Trials. Behind closed doors, they are brutal...

Betrayed. My best friend, my right hand, the man I trusted above all others. Zayden de Rosa declared his love for me and pursued me until he shattered the walls between us. Then the man who loved me proved to be a traitor. I never saw that coming. Abandoned. My fierce lover, he died to protect me. Let me kill him and erase him so he could move in the shadows. He's out there alone and he has no idea what's happened. All he'll know is that I'm not...

Every four years, the criminal underworld engages in a game. The Game. The challenges range from the impossible to the deadly to the truly insane. Things that only a crazy person would tackle. I've won the game five times. This time will be no different. I'm at the top of my field now, the best of the world's thieves. There's nothing I can't steal, and this time, the game is all about theft, subterfuge, and sleight of hand. Starting with a legendary...

Five years ago, I made a choice that I haven't regretted a day since. I protected the single most important person in my world, my little sister. I protected myself, and I seized control of the Tri-state Timberwolves. Since then, I've wielded that power with an iron fist. Done whatever it took to take care of my people. Kept us out of the public eye and kept us safe. Now a ghost from my past is threatening my position. Challenging me. Peddling their...