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James Tate

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Bio

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.

James Tate Books

Hell, I Love Everybody: The Essential James Tate book cover

Hell, I Love Everybody: The Essential James Tate

James Tate
The Government Lake book cover

The Government Lake

James Tate
Dome of the Hidden Pavilion book cover

Dome of the Hidden Pavilion

James Tate
Selected Poems book cover

Selected Poems

James Tate
Dreams of a Robot Dancing Bee book cover

Dreams of a Robot Dancing Bee

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The Ghost Soldiers book cover

The Ghost Soldiers

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Riding the Earthboy 40 book cover

Riding the Earthboy 40

James Welch
The Best American Poetry 1997 book cover

The Best American Poetry 1997

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