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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The operator may have believed he was playing on the phone.
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I love my funny poems, but I'd rather break your heart. And if I can do both in the same poem, that's the best.
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Anytime you have a funeral of a person who is publicly known, it calls for extra security to handle crowd control. This definitely is not the first type of funeral we would handle in this type of manner.
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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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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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Neighbors were saying that dog was very protective of the woman. For some reason, it snapped.
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The department has issued tickets ... and will continue to do so.
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We're looking for folks to pay their fair share for services -- it's not just police, but also fire and other services the city provides.
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We believe that he knew who he was shooting at, but again, bullets don?t have names on them.
I like to start with the ordinary, and then nudge it, and then think, 'What happens next, what happens next?'