James Tate CD

1996. Introduced by John Ashbery.

Tate gave this superbly comic reading in connection with his receipt of the second Wallace Stevens Award. He is also the recent winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, "testifying to the broad appeal of his wonderfully eccentric and generous poetry," as John Ashbery has said.

Included are "How the Pope is Chosen" and "An Eland, In Retirement," from Worshipful Company of Fletchers, and numerous poems from his book, The Shroud of the Gnome.

Length: 56 min.

Track List

1. Introduction by Bill Wadworth
2. Introduction by John Ashbery
3. How the Pope is Chosen
4. An Eland in Retirement
5. Introduction to "Becoming a Scout"
6. Becoming a Scout
7. Where Babies Come From
8. My Felisberto
9. The New Ergonomics
10. Think of Your Absent Friend
11. Chronology of Events
12. Never Again the Same
13. Acting on a Tip
14. I Left My Couch in Tatamagouch
15. Lafcadio
16. Per Diem
17. Days of Pie and Coffee
18. Restless Leg Syndrome
19. Non-Stop
20. Introduction to "Dream On"
21. Dream On