James Tate

Selected Poems


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      Selected Poems

       Other books by James Tate

      The Lost Pilot

      The Oblivion Ha-Ha

      Hints to Pilgrims

      Absences

      Hottentot Ossuary

      Viper Jazz

      Riven Doggeries

      Constant Defender

      Reckoner

      Distance from Loved Ones

      Dreams of a Robot Dancing Bee

      Lost River

      James Tate

      SELECTED POEMS

      WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY PRESS

      Middletown, Connecticut

      Published by

      WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY PRESS

      Middletown, CT 06459

      © 1991 by James Tate

      All rights reserved

      Originally produced in 1991 by

      Wesleyan/University Press of New England

      Hanover, NH 03755

      Printed in the United States of America 10 9 8

      CIP data appear at the end of the book

      The Lost Pilot, Yale University Press, 1967; Ecco Press, 1982; included by permission of Ecco Press. The Oblivion Ha-Ha, Unicorn Press, 1970; included by permission. Hints to Pilgrims, University of Massachusetts Press, 1971; included by permission. Absences, Atlantic Monthly Press, 1972; Carnegie Mellon University Press, 1990. Hottentot Ossuary, Temple Bar Press, 1974. Viper Jazz, Wesleyan University Press, 1976; included by permission. River Doggeries, Ecco Press, 1979; included by permission. Constant Defender, Ecco Press, 1983; included by permission. Reckoner, Wesleyan University Press, 1986; included by permission.

      COVER ILLUSTRATION: The Herald of Autumn by Paul Klee, 1922. Watercolor and pencil on laid Ingres paper. Yale University Art Gallery; Gift of Collection Société Anonyme.

      Contents

       I from The Lost Pilot (1967)

       Manna 3

       The Book of Lies 4

       Coming Down Cleveland Avenue 5

       Reapers of the Water 6

       Epithalamion for Tyler 8

       For Mother on Father’s Day 9

       In a Town for Which I Know No Name 10

       Success Comes to Cow Creek 11

       Why I Will Not Get Out of Bed 13

       Graveside 14

       The Lost Pilot 15

       Intimidations of an Autobiography 17

       The End of the Line 19

       The Move 20

       Flight 21

       Grace 22

       The Last Days of April 23

       Uncle 24

       How the Friends Met 25

       Tragedy Comes to the Bad Lands 26

       Aunt Edna 27

       Rescue 28

       The Mirror 29

       The Tabernacle 30

       Late Harvest 32

       Today I Am Falling 33

       II from The Oblivion Ha-Ha (1970)

       Poem (High in Hollywood Hills a door opens) 37

       Rape in the Engineering Building 38

       The Blue Booby 39

       The Pet Deer 41

       Up Here 42

       Prose Poem 43

       Coda 44

       The Tryst 45

       Pity Ascending with the Fog 46

       Pride’s Crossing 47

       The Indian Undertaker 48

       The Initiation 49