Name: Hell, I Love Everybody: the Essential James Tate
ISBN: 9780063306073

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Poetry’s Open Roads

James Tate’s poems make room for intimacy, hope, and the pleasures of going beyond convention.

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A poet’s inventive, possibility-minded reach
A lasting collection of favorites, with a foreword by Terrance Hayes

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Poems described as intimate, hopeful, and brilliant
A collection that pushes past convention

Book Details

Authors: James Tate
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: November 7, 2023
Format: Print & ebook
Theme: American Poetry · Poetry About Death
Reading lane: American Poetry

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Creative Writing
American Lit Crit
Poetry Criticism
Poetry Anthologies

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American Poetry
Poetry About Death
Love Poetry

About This Book

An essential collection of James Tate’s extraordinary poems that will captivate today’s readers, with a foreword 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 into possibilities for American...

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An essential collection of James Tate’s extraordinary poems that will captivate today’s readers, with a foreword 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 into possibilities for American poetry’s future. With a foreword by Terrance Hayes, it is sure to give readers new and old a lasting collection of favorites.