Selected Poems (Wesleyan Poetry Series)
by James Tate
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Author: James TateEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1991-03-15
ISBN: 0819511927
Number of pages: 250
Publisher: Wesleyan
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Book Review: A "omnibuzz" of the highest order
Summary: 5 Stars
Tate's poems pack an extraordinary amount of activity into a very small space. Quite often a stanza, line or sometimes even a single word (e.g. "omnibuzz", a brilliant coinage from "The Life of Poetry", p. 174) can stand alone as a mini-poem on its own merits.A first read of a Tate poem can be annoying: the queasy feeling generated by a sequence of these (seemingly unrelated) mini-poems that have a disconcerting way of creating new layers of meaning by forming uneasy alliances with each other.
Like Shakespeare before him (yes, he really is that good--you've got to read this guy!), Tate defies linguistic conventions in order raise, affirm, and expand human experience. Of course no one really knows if several centuries from now people will still be reading Tate, but I'd put money on it.
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