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. 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.
What happens when a dog is promoted to a human, a trip to the candy store becomes a lesson in metaphysics, and an alien visitor just wants to meet a real cowboy?
