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

    Written by James Tate

    Narrated by James Tate and Michael Earl Craig

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

    Celebrating 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.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperAudio
    Release dateNov 7, 2023
    ISBN9780063306165
    Hell, I Love Everybody: The Essential James Tate: Poems
    Author

    James Tate

    James Tate's poems have been awarded the National Book Award, the Pulitzer Prize, the Wallace Stevens Award, the William Carlos Williams Award, the Yale Younger Poets Award, and the National Institute of Arts and Letters Award, and have been translated across the globe. Tate was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters; his many collections include The Lost Pilot, The Oblivion Ha-Ha, Absences, Distance from Loved Ones, Worshipful Company of Fletchers, and The Ghost Soldiers. Born in Kansas City, Missouri, he made his home in Pelham, Massachusetts.

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