Poetry About Death
Reader pathways and category hints that cluster around this lane.

What the Moon Gave Her

The Book of Common Courage

Bone Palace Ballet

Hotel Insomnia

3 Sections

Given Sugar, Given Salt

Failure

With My Back to the World

The Music Was Just Getting Good

Maybe Today

This Present Moment

The Rupture Tense

Blizzard of One

Collected Poems 1943-2004

A Midnight Moon

Grand Tour

Mountain Interval

The Rain in the Trees

What Is Otherwise Infinite

I Must Belong Somewhere

Root Fractures

Pangaea

Out of the Ashes

Hell, I Love Everybody: the Essential James Tate

About Time

Path of Totality

Memoir of the Hawk

White Apples and the Taste of Stone

Old Monarch

Cat Town

Deep in My Feels

Call Me Home

I Still Believe in Miracles

Collected Poems

My Index of Slightly Horrifying Knowledge

Night Watch

Said the Manic to the Muse

From the New World

In the Middle of a Better World

New Moons

Late to the Search Party

The Invention of the Darling

Little Mercy

Dead Girl Cameo

Foxes on the Trampoline

Reliquaria

Mezzanine

The Never Was

Parallel Movement of the Hands

The Book of Alice

New and Collected Hell

After the Lost War

Fifty Poems

The Waste Land

Furious Dusk

Reconstruction of the Poet

Radicle, or When the World Lived Inside US

A Brief History of the Midwest

The Heart of You

The Quiet After