The Government Lake
eBook - ePub

The Government Lake

Last Poems

  1. 112 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The Government Lake

Last Poems

About this book

The stunning, startling collection that is also the last work from a major poet
A woman named Mildred starts laying eggs after feathers from wild poultry begin coming down the chimney. A man becomes friends with a bank robber who abducts him and eventually rues his captor's death. A baby is born transparent.

James Tate's work, filled with unexpected turns and deadpan exaggeration, "fanciful and grave, mundane and transcendent," ( New York Times) has been among the most defining and significant of our time. In his last collection before his death in 2015, Tate's dark yet whimsical humor, his emotional acuity, and his keen ear for the absurd are on full display in prose poems that finely constructed and lyrical, surrealistic and provocative.

With The Government Lake, James Tate reminds us why he is one of the great poets of our age and one of the true masters of the form. 

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Information

Publisher
Ecco
Year
2024
Print ISBN
9780062914729
eBook ISBN
9780062914736
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
American Poetry
Index
Literature

Contents

Cover
Title Page
Publisher’s Note
Frontispiece
Acknowledgments
Eternity
My New Pet
Into the Night
The Seahorse
The Prairie Dog Town Under Attack
Partners
Debbie and the Lumberjack
Double-Trouble
Roscoe’s Farewell
The Sky Is Falling Like Bunnies
A Pea in a Pod
Everything But Thomas
O Josephina
The Jackdaw’s Head
Fishing in the Sea of Galilee
The Cow and the Butterflies
The Phone Call
Elvis Has Left the House
A Shift in the Attic
The Execution
The Shepherd
The Liar
Magic
Out of Breath
The Thief
The Walk Home
Second Childhood
The Argonaut
The Floorplan to Heaven
The Shadows of the Trees on the Water
Transparent Child
The Dead Man’s Friend
My Father and Me
The Government Lake
The Devil
Too Late
The Prayer
The Visiting Doctor
Married to the Wrong Man
The Final Vacation
A Dream Come True
The Truth
I sat at my desk and contemplated all that I had accomplished
About the Author
Also by James Tate
Copyright
About the Publisher

Eternity

Wild poultry inhabit these hills. Nobody knows how they got there
or how they survive. They just do. Oh sure, a fox picks one of them off
every now and then, but they can fly short distances and they can peck
like crazy, too. Of course hunters hunt them as well. And they are not
very hard to hit. But they multiply quite rapidly, so it all works o...

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Publisher’s Note
  4. Frontispiece
  5. Acknowledgments
  6. Contents
  7. Eternity
  8. My New Pet
  9. Into the Night
  10. The Seahorse
  11. The Prairie Dog Town Under Attack
  12. Partners
  13. Debbie and the Lumberjack
  14. Double-Trouble
  15. Roscoe’s Farewell
  16. The Sky Is Falling Like Bunnies
  17. A Pea in a Pod
  18. Everything But Thomas
  19. O Josephina
  20. The Jackdaw’s Head
  21. Fishing in the Sea of Galilee
  22. The Cow and the Butterflies
  23. The Phone Call
  24. Elvis Has Left the House
  25. A Shift in the Attic
  26. The Execution
  27. The Shepherd
  28. The Liar
  29. Magic
  30. Out of Breath
  31. The Thief
  32. The Walk Home
  33. Second Childhood
  34. The Argonaut
  35. The Floorplan to Heaven
  36. The Shadows of the Trees on the Water
  37. Transparent Child
  38. The Dead Man’s Friend
  39. My Father and Me
  40. The Government Lake
  41. The Devil
  42. Too Late
  43. The Prayer
  44. The Visiting Doctor
  45. Married to the Wrong Man
  46. The Final Vacation
  47. A Dream Come True
  48. The Truth
  49. I sat at my desk and contemplated all that I had accomplished
  50. About the Author
  51. Also by James Tate
  52. Copyright
  53. About the Publisher