Dome of the Hidden Pavilion

The seventeenth book of verse from one of America's finest and most acclaimed contemporary poets, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award

Capturing his inimitable voice?provocative, amusing, understated, and riotous all at once?the poems in Dome of the Hidden Pavilion demonstrate James Tate at his finest. Innovative and fresh, they range in subject from a talking blob to a sobering reminiscence of a war and its aftereffects.

Auteur

James Tate was born in Kansas City, Missouri, in 1943. He is the author of seventeen books of poetry, including Worshipful Company of Fletchers, which won the National Book Award in 1994; Selected Poems, which won the Pulitzer Prize and the William Carlos Williams Award in 1991; and The Lost Pilot, which was selected by Dudley Fitts for the Yale Series of Younger Poets. He has also published a novel and a collection of short stories, as well as edited The 1997 Best American Poetry Anthology. His honors include a National Institute of Arts and Letters Award for Poetry, the Tanning Prize, the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. He teaches at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst.

Résumé
The seventeenth book of verse from one of Americas finest and most acclaimed contemporary poetswinner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award.Capturing his inimitable voiceprovocative, amusing, understated, and riotous all at oncethe poems in Dome of the Hidden Pavilion demonstrate James Tate at his finest. Innovative and fresh, they range in subject from a talking blob to a sobering reminiscence of a war and its aftereffects.Though they are diverse in scope, a theme of dialogue and communicationand often miscommunicationlinks these poems. Accessible yet subtly surrealist, filled with dark wit, dry humor, and a deceptive simplicity, Dome of the Hidden Pavilion confirms Tates continuing relevance as one of the most celebrated American poets of the modern age.