Shroud Of The Gnome

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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.

Product details

• Authors: James Tate
• Publisher: Ecco Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 22.07.1999
• EAN: 9780880015622
• ISBN: 978-0-88001-562-2
• No. of pages: 96
• Dimensions: 137 mm x 213 mm x 6 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Canada, Narrative theme: Death, grief, loss, Epic, Literary essays, Diaries, letters and journals, Classic and pre-20th century poetry, Speeches, Ancient, classical and medieval texts, Medieval style, POETRY: American / General, LITERARY COLLECTIONS: Essays, LITERARY COLLECTIONS: Letters, POETRY: General, POETRY: Medieval, LITERARY COLLECTIONS: Speeches, POETRY: Epic, POETRY: Haiku *, LITERARY COLLECTIONS: Medieval, Poetry by form: Haiku