{"product_id":"the-ghost-soldiers-9780061756078","title":"The Ghost Soldiers","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn this, his fifteenth collection of poetry, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet James Tate continues doing what he does best. His poems are evocative, provocative, funny, subtle, eccentric, occasionally disturbing, and wildly outrageous. Tate′s surrealist style strikes its own utterly new and original note in American poetry; as Charles Simic has observed, \"To write a poem out of nothng at all is Tate′s genius...Just about anything can happen next in this kind of poetry and that is its attraction...He makes me think that anti-poetry is the best friend poetry ever had.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Father′s Day\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e My daughter has lived overseas for a number\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e of years now. She married into royalty, and they\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e won′t let her communicate with any of her family or \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e friends. She lives on birdseed and a few sips\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e of water. She dreams of me constantly. Her husband, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e the Prince, whips her when he catches her dreaming.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Fierce guard dogs won′t let her out of their sight.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e I hired a detective, but he was killed trying to\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e rescue her. I have written hundreds of letters\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e to the State Department. They have written back \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e saying that they are aware of the situation. I\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e never saw her dance. I was always away at some\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e convention. I never saw her sing. I was always\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e working late. I called her My Princess, to make\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e up for my shortcomings, and she never forgave me.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Birdseed was her middle name.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTate, James:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003eJames Tate was born in Kansas City, Missouri, in 1943. He is the author of seventeen books of poetry, including \u003cem\u003eWorshipful Company of Fletchers\u003c\/em\u003e, which won the National Book Award in 1994; \u003cem\u003eSelected Poems\u003c\/em\u003e, which won the Pulitzer Prize and the William Carlos Williams Award in 1991; and \u003cem\u003eThe Lost Pilot\u003c\/em\u003e, 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 \u003cem\u003eThe 1997 Best American Poetry Anthology\u003c\/em\u003e. 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ecco Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50459898151186,"sku":"9780061756078","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_a4f43fce-28aa-4db9-983e-d5516c02119a.jpg?v=1730012910","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-ghost-soldiers-9780061756078","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}