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Hell, I Love Everybody

52 Poems
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In 1997 Carcanet published the Selected Poems with which James Tate (1943-2015) won the Pulitzer Prize and his first British book. Hell, I love everybody: 52 Poems by James Tate re-introduces the poet, providing a poem for every week of the year, every mood and season. It includes work from his first publication, The Lost Pilot, a Yale Younger Poets selection (1967) and all his subsequent books. He is a most agile poet in a precarious world. Life is alarming, absurd, but properly considered that absurdity reveals, often with laughter, the something else by which we live. All Tates poems are about our world, our wrecked, vexed love for it. Tate was described as a surrealist. If he is, that surrealism issues in a vision of a world delivered back to itself by candour. John Ashbery wrote of his genius: passionate, humane, funny, tragic, and always surprising and mind-delighting.

James Tate (1943-2015) grew up in Kansas City, Missouri. He was the author several books of poems and taught at the University of Massachusetts. His Selected Poems (1991) won the Pulitzer Prize.

Terrance Hayes is an award-winning American poet. His collections include So To Speak (2023), American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin (2018) and How to Be Drawn (2015).

• In 1997 Carcanet published Tate’s Selected Poems which won the Pulitzer Prize and was his first British book

• This new publication re-introduces the poet, providing a poem for every week of the year, every mood and season

• Includes work from his first publication, The Lost Pilot, a Yale Younger Poets selection (1967) and all his subsequent books

• All Tate’s poems are about our world (its absurdity and precariousness) and our wrecked, vexed love for it

• Terrance Hayes is a leading younger poet in the US, winner of the National Book Award for Poetry

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