"Tate's poems are meditative, introverted, self-reliant, funny,
alarming, strange, difficult, intelligent, and beautifully crafted."
--*New York Times
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The Eternal Ones of the Dream is a breathtaking collection of poems
from the last two decades of work of one of modern American poetry's
major artists, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner James Tate.
Tate's remarkable work--filled with dark wit, dry humor, and deceptive
simplicity--is considered among the most accessible poetry written in
the last several decades, and it has inspired acclaimed poet W.S. Merwin
to write, "Mr. Tate's gift is such that many of [his] poems move me at
least to plain envy of what he can do."