• Hell, I Love Everybody: The Essential James Tate
  • BIOGRAPHY
  • RECOGNITION
  • BOOKS
  • CHAPBOOKS
  • BROADSIDES
  • POEMS
    • poems by date
    • poems by publication
    • poems by title
    • chosen by readers
  • AUDIO AND VIDEO
    • Tate Reading
    • Jim's Big Drive North to the Glen
    • others reading Tate
    • Hell, I Love Everybody - audiobook
  • GALLERY
    • portraits
    • with others
    • places
    • events
  • PHOTO COLLECTION
    • signs
    • old long plain rd.
    • doughboys
    • victuals
    • C5As
    • objects
    • Provincetown & Cape Cod shoreline
    • quarry
  • THE GOVERNMENT LAKE
  • WORDS BY OTHERS
  • INTERVIEWS
  • EPIGRAPHS
  • POEM INDEX
  • LINKS
  • UPDATES
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JAMES TATE

  • Hell, I Love Everybody: The Essential James Tate
  • BIOGRAPHY
  • RECOGNITION
  • BOOKS
  • CHAPBOOKS
  • BROADSIDES
  • POEMS
    • poems by date
    • poems by publication
    • poems by title
    • chosen by readers
  • AUDIO AND VIDEO
    • Tate Reading
    • Jim's Big Drive North to the Glen
    • others reading Tate
    • Hell, I Love Everybody - audiobook
  • GALLERY
    • portraits
    • with others
    • places
    • events
  • PHOTO COLLECTION
    • signs
    • old long plain rd.
    • doughboys
    • victuals
    • C5As
    • objects
    • Provincetown & Cape Cod shoreline
    • quarry
  • THE GOVERNMENT LAKE
  • WORDS BY OTHERS
  • INTERVIEWS
  • EPIGRAPHS
  • POEM INDEX
  • LINKS
  • UPDATES

  • The Afterlife

  • At the Clothesline

  • Anatomy

  • Ancient Story

  • Alert

  • The Aviary

  • The Bag of Feed

  • Banking Rules

  • The Banner

  • A Bar in Aspen

  • Barroom Confession

  • The Beach

  • Bewitched

  • The Blue Booby

  • Bounden Duty

  • Breathing

  • Brittle Family Photographs

  • Burn Down the Town, No Survivors

  • The Cages

  • Camp of No Return

  • Certain Nuances, Certain Gestures

  • The Chaste Stranger

  • The Chickadee

  • City at Night

  • Coda

  • The Cognac

  • Collect Call from Nepal

  • The Condemned Man

  • Consolations After an Affair

  • Conspiracy

  • Constant Defender

  • Cricket Cricket

  • Crimes Against the Lyric

  • Cryptozoa

  • Damaged Stopper with Marigold

  • Dear Mr. President

  • The Definition of Gardening

  • Denied Areas

  • The Diagnosis

  • Different Kinds of Embroidery

  • The Disappearing Wife

  • Double-Trouble

  • The Early Years

  • Editor

  • The Escapade

  • The Expert

  • Failed Tribute to the Stonemason of Tor House, Robinson Jeffers

  • The Farmer

  • Father's Day

  • Flight

  • The Florist

  • For the Love of Veronica

  • A Fox

  • The Fragrant Cloud

  • From an Island

  • Fuck the Astronauts

  • A Good Date

  • The Government Lake

  • Half-Eaten

  • Haunted Aquarium

  • Heaven

  • Honey, Can You Hear Me

  • The Honking

  • How the People Live

  • How Was Your Day?

  • The Humming

  • I Am a Finn

  • In New York

  • In the Rough

  • Indivisible

  • The Interrupted Flow

  • It Happens Like This

  • It Wasn't Me

  • Jim's All-Night Diner

  • Journal of Youth

  • The Kiss

  • A Knock on the Door

  • A Last Hayride

  • Leaving Mother Waiting for Father

  • The List of Famous Hats

  • A Little Skull

  • The Loser

  • The Lost Pilot

  • The Lost Pilot

  • Lost River

  • Lucinda

  • Lust for Life

  • Making the Best of the Holidays

  • Marcella in the Forest

  • The March

  • Mimi

  • Mount Fuji

  • More About Peggy

  • More Later, Less the Same

  • The Motorcyclists

  • My Great Great Etc. Uncle Patrick Henry

  • Never Again the Same

  • The New Chinese Fiction

  • The New Horses

  • The Nimbus

  • No Spitting Up

  • Nuisance

  • On the Subject of Doctors

  • One Traveller to Another

  • Our Roles in Life

  • The Painter of the Night

  • Pastoral

  • The Phone Call

  • Pimone, Stranded in the Countryside

  • Pity Ascending with the Fog

  • Poem (I Can't Speak for the Wind)

  • Poem to Some of My Recent Poems

  • Precious Little We Can Do

  • Pride's Crossing

  • The Promotion

  • Quabbin Reservoir

  • Rainy Day

  • The Rally

  • Red Bricks and Camphor Trees

  • Rescue

  • Restless Leg Syndrome

  • Right Conduct

  • Rising Absenteeism

  • Saint John of the Cross in Prison

  • The Salute

  • Saturdays Are For Bathing Betsy

  • The Search for Lost Lives

  • Sensitive Ears

  • Shadowboxing

  • The Shadowman

  • A Shift in the Attic

  • Shiloh

  • A Shipwrecked Person

  • Shroud of the Gnome

  • Somali Shopping for Organic Figs

  • Song of the Nightingales

  • Spaceship

  • Spiderwebs

  • The Square at Dawn

  • Storm

  • Success Comes to Cow Creek

  • Summer, Maine Coast

  • Teaching the Ape to Write Poems

  • The Thief

  • To Fuzzy

  • The Truth

  • Trying to Help

  • Two For Charles Simic

  • Unlikely Friends

  • Untitled

  • Untitled

  • A Vagabond

  • A Vagabond

  • Very Late, but Not Too Late

  • The Walk Home

  • A Wedding

  • What Had To Be Done

  • The Wheelchair Butterfly

  • The White Thing

  • Why You Wanna Know What Time It Is You Got an Appointment with Your Analyst

  • The Whole World's Sadly Talking to Itself

  • Wild Beasts

  • Witches

  • With a Child All Day

  • The Workforce

  • You Are My Destination and Desire, Fading

  • Zebras Anything