James Tate
Bio
The Lost Pilot
Manna
The Book of Lies
Coming Down Cleveland Avenue
Reapers of the Water
Epithalamion for Tyler
For Mother on Father’s Day
In a Town for Which I Know No Name
Success Comes to Cow Creek
Why I Will Not Get Out of Bed
Graveside
The Lost Pilot
Intimidations of an Autobiography
The End of the Line
The Move
Flight
Grace
The Last Days of April
Uncle
How the Friends Met
Tragedy Comes to the Badlands
Aunt Edna
The Oblivion Ha-Ha
Poem - High in Hollywood Hills a door opens
Rape in the Engineering Building
The Blue Booby
The Pet Deer
Up Here
Prose Poem
Coda
The Tryst
Pity Ascending with the Fog
Pride’s Crossing
The Indian Undertaker
The Initiation
Consumed
Shadowboxing
Images of Little Compton Rhode Island
From the Hole
Twilight Sustenance Hiatus
The Wheelchair Butterfly
It’s Not the Heat So Much as the Humidity
The Eagle Exterminating Company
The President Slumming
Failed Tribute to the Stonemason of Tor House, Robinson Jeffers
Conjuring Roethke
Dear Reader
Hints to Pilgrims
Recipe for Sleep
Brother of the Unknown Ancient Man
When The Nomads Come Over the Hill
Poem - A silence that tunnels forever
Frivolous Blind Death Child
Fuck the Astronauts
Alternatives
Absences
Contagion
Breathing
The Distant Orgasm
The Private Intrigue of Melancholy
A Guide to the Stone Age
Wait for Me
The Delicate Riders
If You Would Disappear at Sea
My Girl
Teaching the Ape to Write Poems
Man with Wooden Leg Escapes Prison
St John of the Cross in Prison
South End
My Great Great Etc. Uncle Patrick Henry
Deaf Girl Playing
First Lesson
The Soup of Venus
The Immortals
Teaching the Ape to Write Poems
Man with Wooden Leg Escapes Prison
Cycle of Dust
Hottentot Ossuary
Waking
Deadlines
Leaping Woman
The Hostile Philharmonic Orchestra
Viper Jazz
Poem (I Can’t Speak for the Wind)
Sensitive Ears
A Voyage from Stockholm...
Alfonso Lacklustre
Awkward Silence
A Radical Departure
Read the Great Poets
On the Subject of Doctors
Same Tits
Dry Cup
Village 104
Marfa
Amherst to Easthampton
The Glassy Harbor
Bug Sleep
Autumn
Poem (Language was almost impossible in those days)
In a Motel on Lake Erie
A Dime Found in the Snow
Riven Doggeries
Riven Doggeries
Heatstroke
Rooster
Sloops in the Bay
With a Child All Day
Nature Poem: Demanding Stiff Sentences
Time X
The Shy One
The Life of Poetry
River’s Story
The Responsible Romance
Goodtime Jesus
In the Realm of the Ignition
Constant Defender
Land of Little Sticks, 1945
Poem for the Sandman
Five Years Old
The Horseshoe
The Wild Cheese
Nobody’s Business
Tell Them Was Here
Spring Was Begging to Be Born
Mystic Moment
Yonder
Summer Night
Nausea, Coincidence
Blue Spill
Yellow Newspaper and a Wooden Leg
Constant Defender
The Motorcyclists
Memo to the Dark Angel
If It Would All Please Hurry
Interruptions
To Fuzzy
Bluebird Houses
Poem to Some of My Recent Poems
A Jangling Yarn
Tragedy’s Greatest Hits
Toward Saint Looey
Reckoner
Jo Jo’s Fireworks—Next Exit
No Rest for the Gambler
A Wedding
A List of Famous Hats
Jelka Revisited
Smart and Final Iris
The Chaste Stranger
Ash Manor
A Vagabond
Neighbors
The Sadness of My Neighbors
Thoughts While Reading the Sand Reckoner
Storm
Stella Maris
Vocalist - Tom Zingarelli
Poem Source: Selected Poems - James Tate - Wesleyan - 1991
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