James Tate
James Tate was born in Kansas City, Missouri, in 1943. He is the author of sixteen books of poetry, including "The Ghost Soldiers; Return to the City of White Donkeys; Memoir of the Hawk; Shroud of the Gnome; Worshipful Company of Fletchers", which won the National Book Award in 1994; "Selected Poems", which won the Pulitzer Prize and the William Carlos Williams Award in 1991; "Distance from Loved Ones; Reckoner; Constant Defender; Riven Doggeries; Viper Jazz; Absences; Hints to Pilgrims; The...See more
James Tate was born in Kansas City, Missouri, in 1943. He is the author of sixteen books of poetry, including "The Ghost Soldiers; Return to the City of White Donkeys; Memoir of the Hawk; Shroud of the Gnome; Worshipful Company of Fletchers", which won the National Book Award in 1994; "Selected Poems", which won the Pulitzer Prize and the William Carlos Williams Award in 1991; "Distance from Loved Ones; Reckoner; Constant Defender; Riven Doggeries; Viper Jazz; Absences; Hints to Pilgrims; The Oblivion Ha-Ha"; and "The Lost Pilot", which was selected by Dudley Fitts for the Yale Series of Younger Poets. He teaches at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst. See less
