James Tate

Selected Poems


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       Shadowboxing 51

       Images of Little Compton, Rhode Island 52

       From the Hole 53

       The Trap 54

       Twilight Sustenance Hiatus 55

       The Wheelchair Butterfly 56

       It’s Not the Heat So Much as the Humidity 58

       The Eagle Exterminating Company 60

       The President Slumming 61

       Failed Tribute to the Stonemason of Tor House, Robinson Jeffers 62

       Conjuring Roethke 64

       Dear Reader 65

       III from Hints to Pilgrims (1971)

       Recipe for Sleep 69

       Brother of the Unknown Ancient Man 70

       When the Nomads Come Over the Hill 71

       Poem (A silence that tunnels forever) 72

       I Take Back All My Kisses 73

       Frivolous Blind Death Child 75

       Alternatives 76

       Amnesia People 79

       Fuck the Astronauts 88

       Lewis and Clark Overheard in Conversation 90

       IV from Absences (1972)

       Contagion 93

       Breathing 94

       The Distant Orgasm 96

       The Private Intrigue of Melancholy 99

       A Guide to the Stone Age 100

       Wait for Me 101

       The Delicate Riders 102

       If You Would Disappear at Sea 103

       My Girl 104

       Absences 105

       South End 115

       My Great Great Etc. Uncle Patrick Henry 116

       Deaf Girl Playing 117

       First Lesson 119

       The Soup of Venus 120

       The Immortals 121

       Teaching the Ape to Write Poems 122

       Man with Wooden Leg Escapes Prison 123

       Saint John of the Cross in Prison 124

       Cycle of Dust 125

       V from Hottentot Ossuary (1974)

       Waking 133

       Deadlines 134

       Leaping Woman 135

       The Hostile Philharmonic Orchestra 136

       VI from Viper Jazz (1976)

       Poem (I Can’t Speak for the Wind) 139

       Sensitive Ears 140

       A Voyage from Stockholm to Take Advantage of Lower Prices on the Finnish Island of Åland 141

       Alfonso Lacklustre 142

       Awkward Silence 144

       A Radical Departure 145

       Read the Great Poets 146

       On the Subject of Doctors 148

       Same Tits 149

       Dry Cup 150

       Village 104 151

       Marfa 152

       Amherst to Easthampton 154

       The Glassy Harbor 155

       “Dreamy Cars Graze on the Dewy Boulevard” 156

       Bug Sleep 157

       Autumn 158

       Poem (Language was almost impossible) 159

       In a Motel on Lake Erie 160

       A Dime Found in the Snow 161

       VII from Riven Doggeries (1979)

       Riven Doggeries 165

       Heatstroke 166

       Rooster 168

       Sloops in the Bay 169

       With a Child All Day 170

       Nature Poem: Demanding Stiff Sentences 171

       Time X 172

       The Shy One 173

       The Life of Poetry 174

       River’s Story 175

       The Responsible Romance 176

       Goodtime Jesus 177

       In the Realm of the Ignition 178

       VIII from Constant Defender (1983)

       Land of Little Sticks, 1945 181

       Poem for the Sandman 182

       Five Years Old 183

       The Horseshoe 184

       The Wild Cheese 185

       Nobody’s Business 186

       Tell Them Was Here 188

       Spring Was Begging to Be Born 189

       Mystic Moment 191

       Yonder 192

       Summer Night 194

       Nausea, Coincidence 196

       Blue Spill 197

       Yellow Newspaper and a Wooden Leg 198

       Constant Defender 199

       The Motorcyclists 200

       Memo to the Dark Angel 201

       If It Would All Please Hurry 202

       Interruptions 205