James Tate
James Tate
James Vincent Tatewas an American poet whose work earned him the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. He was a professor of English at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth8 December 1943
CountryUnited States of America
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We monitored intelligence reports. There were no specific threats to the city of Detroit or any Super Bowl venue.
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Every time we received a complaint, we've hit the house.
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Every time we got a call, we came out here. This is a well-known narcotics location. It's not as if we were doing nothing with this house.
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We have a lot of help from federal and local law enforcement, some of whom have worked other Super Bowls, and are coming into town. We're borrowing their expertise.
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I can't know entirely what's at stake beforehand; you find out as you go. I love to take a poem, for instance, that starts with something seemingly frivolous or inconsequential and then grows in gravity until by the end it's something very serious.
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I don't think you can define how you acquire your imagination any more than you can define why one person has a sense of humor and another doesn't. But I certainly would lean to the side that says all those solitary hours of daydreaming were a kind of training for poetry.
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When you don't sleep, you start to hallucinate, and that's not good.
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The operator may have believed he was playing on the phone.
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Neighbors were saying that dog was very protective of the woman. For some reason, it snapped.
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It's clear that this is not a case of foul play.
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The challenge is always to find the ultimate in the ordinary horseshit.
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Something should always change in a poem. The persona should learn something.
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William Waltz will take me through 'the buzz and clamor in a forest of hearts.' Adventures in the Lost Interiors of America is an adventure, I will go on this adventure with Waltz as a skillful, faithful, compass-true guide. I love this book.
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In You Are Not Dead Wendy Xu breaks all the old rules that have never done us any favors anyway. She writes beautifully, noticing who we are, and letting us see ourselves with a little more humanity, a little more humor, a little more humility. I'm happy to have read this book.