{"product_id":"selected-poems-9780819511928","title":"Selected Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn award-winning gathering of exquisite poems by a celebrated poet.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (1992)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the William Carlos Williams Award (1992)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Selected Poems James Tate's Pulitzer Prize-winning collection and his first British publication, gathers work from nine previous books, from the Lost Pilot which was a Yale Younger Poets selection in 1967, through his 1986 collection Reckoner. He is a most agile poet in a precarious world. Life is alarming and absurd, but properly considered that absurdity reveals, often with laughter, the something else by which we live. The poems are about our world, our wrecked, vexed love for it. Tate has been described as a surrealist. If that is what he is, his surrealism issues in a vision of a world delivered back to itself by his unillusioned subversion and candor.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eJAMES TATE grew up in Kansas City, Missouri. He is the author of The Lost Pilot (1967), The Oblivion Ha-Ha (1970), Hints to Pilgrims (1971), Absences (1972), Viper Jazz (1976), Riven Doggeries (1979), Constant Defenders (1983), and Reckoner (1986). He teaches at the University of Massachusetts and lives in Amherst.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Wesleyan University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50648914690322,"sku":"9780819511928","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_b87bc335-2781-4cf8-8666-7621346c1baa.jpg?v=1733252650","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/selected-poems-9780819511928","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}