Return to the City of White Donkeys: Poems

by James Tate

Book Overview

In his fourteenth collection of poetry, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner James Tate continues exploring his own peculiar brand of poetry, transforming our everyday world into one where women give birth to wolves, wild babies are found in gardens, and Saint Nick visits on a hot July day. Tate's signature style draws on a marvelous variety of voices and characters, all of which sound vaguely familiar, but are each fantastically unique,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0060750014
• ISBN13: 9780060750015
• Release Date: November 2004
• Publisher: Ecco Press
• Length: 173 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Fantastic

This book is amazing. It's humorous, unique, and really makes you think. It seems like a new kind of poem. They are almost like short stories. I also want to say this book is bizarre, but in a very good way. Love it!

surreal, comic prose poems

this book is a fantastic bargain. it's a lesson in how creative a mind can be when able to free associate, but it still shows the craft of a master poet. tate doesn't strain to be weird or resort to gimmicks, he just tells his funny little stories in poetic form and they always go to surprising places. i love his book.

Unique Book.

Yes, the James Tate poems are up to something. As unique a collection of poems as you will find anywhere. In this book are poems that usurp America.

Special Poetry for Everyone

I had the pleasure of hearing James Tate read some of these poems at a writers' conference and was able to get an autograohed copy of this delightful book. The poems, some of which read like short stories, are multi-layered and you'll want to read them many times.

Never Again the Same

James Tate does it, ie does it and does it. James Tate is up to something.