JAMES TATE

published November 7, 2023 by EccoHarperCollins ┃ order at Bookshop.org

audiobook by James Tate and Michael Earl Craig

from the audiobook:

“He was a humanist, and the best kind, a skeptical humanist who understood our need for protection, for disguise and privacy, for both solitude and collectivity. Our need to sometimes wander alone or to gather. Our complicated, endless capacity for harm and beauty.” - Gillian Conoley, The Adroit Journal

“It’s how the poem fashions you, makes a statement, instead of a question, out of you. It’s the new, odd addition to the wardrobe. It’s how you dress the mind—how you seed and disperse the imagination.” - Arisa White, The Adroit Journal

“‘Someone had spread an elaborate rumor about me,’ begins Tate’s ‘The Cowboy,’ ‘that I was / in possession of an extraterrestrial being.’” - Rowland Bagnall, Los Angeles Review of Books

“To read for the first time ‘How the Pope Is Chosen,’ as line by line it exits a fax machine constitutes an ultra-divine poetry encounter.” - Dara Barrois/Dixon on the Lived Poetry of the Late James Tate, Peter Mishler, Lit Hub