Tate, James [Vincent]
Tate, James [Vincent]( 1943– ),poetborn in Kansas City, a member of the English department at the University of Massachusetts(1967– ), came to prominence aged only 23 when his The Lost Pilot (1967) won the award of the Yale Series of Younger Poets. Praised by Robert Lowell for his “low-keyed, offhand style,” counterpointing “feelings of estrangement, anger, and self-abasing humor,” and noted too for his wit, later lyrics have been collected in The Oblivion Ha-Ha (1970), Absences (1972), Hints to Pilgrims (1971, revised 1982), Viper Jazz (1976), Riven Doggeries (1979), Constant Defender (1983), Reckoner (1986), Selected Poems (1992, Pulitzer Prize), Worshipful Company of Fletchers (1994, National Book Award), and other publications.
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