Hell, I Love Everybody: the Essential James Tate
Poems
HarperCollins · Print & ebook · November 7, 2023
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.
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- Who it’s for
- James Tate’s poems make room for intimacy, hope, and the pleasures of going beyond convention.
- Themes
- Poetic experimentation, Hope and intimacy
- Genres
- American Poetry
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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.
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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.
Poetry’s Open Roads
James Tate’s poems make room for intimacy, hope, and the pleasures of going beyond convention.
Come here for
- A poet’s inventive, possibility-minded reach
- A lasting collection of favorites, with a foreword by Terrance Hayes
Expect
- Poems described as intimate, hopeful, and brilliant
- A collection that pushes past convention
Where it sits
| American Poetry | 84% |
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Publisher categories
- Creative Writing
- American Lit Crit
- Poetry Criticism
- Poetry Anthologies
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- American Poetry
- Poetry About Death
- Love Poetry
- Authors
- James Tate
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Published
- November 7, 2023
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Poetic experimentation · Hope and intimacy
- Reading lane
- Creative Writing