Hell, I Love Everybody The Essential..., James Tate
Hell, I Love Everybody The Essential..., James Tate
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Hell, I Love Everybody: The Essential James Tate
Poems

Author: James Tate

Narrator: James Tate, Michael Earl Craig

Unabridged: 2 hr 2 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Ecco

Published: 11/07/2023

Synopsis

An essential collection of James Tate’s extraordinary poems that will captivate today’s readers, with a foreword by Terrance HayesCelebrating 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.

About James Tate

James Tate's poems have been awarded the National Book Award, the PulitzerPrize, the Wallace Stevens Award, the William Carlos Williams Award, the YaleYounger Poets Award, and the National Institute of Arts and Letters Award, andhave been translated across the globe. Tate was a member of the AmericanAcademy of Arts and Letters; his many collections include The Lost Pilot, TheOblivion Ha-Ha, Absences, Distance from Loved Ones, Worshipful Companyof Fletchers, and The Ghost Soldiers. Born in Kansas City, Missouri, he made hishome in Pelham, Massachusetts.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Patricia on August 19, 2023

Day 19 of #TheSealeyChallenge 2023. Hell, I l Love Everybody by James Tate published by Ecco. @SealeyChallenge @eccobooks #JamesTate #thesealeychallenge2023 #sealeychallenge #poetry “The subtextual pang you find in a Jim Tate line, a deadpan panic, creeps into the echoes.” Thanks to @netgalley for the......more

Goodreads review by Mallory on March 11, 2024

Sometimes I think there is an obsession in poetry to remove the "I". I also think there is an obsession to tell narrative through the form of truth. To hell with true stories. I have lived a thousand true stories and they are ugly and filled with bastards and holes. Tate here, becoming repetitive at......more

Goodreads review by Brian on August 17, 2024

Very weird but enjoyable collection of poems. I've never heard of this poet but saw the collection on the "new arrivals" table at the library and decided to give it a shot. A lot of the poems felt like I was reading someone's dream journal. Many of them made me smile or chuckle, but many of them jus......more

Goodreads review by Devon on April 24, 2024

Sure, a fever dream. Absurdism, related—in time and space and feeling—to DeLillo’s White Noise, which I read last month. But sometimes clear, or clear enough. Hell, I Love Everybody: The Essential James Tate was not a collected book of poetry like I would expect. I mean, its meanings were hidden eno......more

Goodreads review by Bella on November 17, 2023

I worship at the church of James Tate......more

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