- 112 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
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The Government Lake
About This Book
The stunning, startling collection that is also the last work from a major poet A woman named Mildred starts laying eggs after feathers from wild poultry begin coming down the chimney. A man becomes friends with a bank robber who abducts him and eventually rues his captor's death. A baby is born transparent.
James Tate's work, filled with unexpected turns and deadpan exaggeration, "fanciful and grave, mundane and transcendent, " ( New York Times ) has been among the most defining and significant of our time. In his last collection before his death in 2015, Tate's dark yet whimsical humor, hisemotional acuity, and hiskeen ear for the absurd are on full display in prose poems that finely constructed and lyrical, surrealistic and provocative.
With The Government Lake, James Tate reminds us why he is one of the great poets of our age and one of the true masters of the form.
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Eternity
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Publisherâs Note
- Frontispiece
- Acknowledgments
- Contents
- Eternity
- My New Pet
- Into the Night
- The Seahorse
- The Prairie Dog Town Under Attack
- Partners
- Debbie and the Lumberjack
- Double-Trouble
- Roscoeâs Farewell
- The Sky Is Falling Like Bunnies
- A Pea in a Pod
- Everything But Thomas
- O Josephina
- The Jackdawâs Head
- Fishing in the Sea of Galilee
- The Cow and the Butterflies
- The Phone Call
- Elvis Has Left the House
- A Shift in the Attic
- The Execution
- The Shepherd
- The Liar
- Magic
- Out of Breath
- The Thief
- The Walk Home
- Second Childhood
- The Argonaut
- The Floorplan to Heaven
- The Shadows of the Trees on the Water
- Transparent Child
- The Dead Manâs Friend
- My Father and Me
- The Government Lake
- The Devil
- Too Late
- The Prayer
- The Visiting Doctor
- Married to the Wrong Man
- The Final Vacation
- A Dream Come True
- The Truth
- I sat at my desk and contemplated all that I had accomplished
- About the Author
- Also by James Tate
- Copyright
- About the Publisher