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Return to the City of White Donkeys - by James Tate (Paperback)

Return to the City of White Donkeys - by  James Tate (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>In his fourteenth collection of poetry, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner James Tate continues exploring his own peculiar brand of poetry, transforming our everyday world, a world where women give birth to wolves, wild babies are found in gardens, and Saint Nick visits on a hot July day. Tate's signature style draws on a marvelous variety of voices and characters, all of which sound vaguely familiar, but are each fantastically unique, brilliant, and eccentric.</p><p>Yet, as Charles Simic observed in the New York Review of Books, With all his reliance on chance, Tate has a serious purpose. He's searching for a new way to write a lyric poem. He continues, To write a poem out of nothing at all is Tate's genius. For him, the poem is something one did not know was there until it was written down. . . . Just about anything can happen next in this kind of poetry and that is its attraction. . . . Tate is not worried about leaving us a little dazed. . . . He succeeds in ways for which there are a few precedents. He makes me think that anti-poetry is the best friend poetry ever had.</p>

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