🇺🇸 James Tate (1943 – 2015)

• “The Aviary”
• “The Kiss”
• “Unlikely Friends”
• “Our Roles in Life”
• “Marcella in the Forest”
• “Conspiracy”
• “The Escapade”
• “I sat at my desk …”
• “The Phone Call”
• “Double Trouble”
• “Spaceship”
• “A Good Date”
• “In The Rough”
• “The Disappearing Wife”
• “The Humming”
• “The Cognac”
• “Heaven”
• “The Bag of Feed”
• “Honey, Can You Hear Me”
• “A Last Hayride”
• “Making the Best of the Holidays”
• “The March”
• “What Had To Be Done”
• “Banking Rules”
• “How the People Live”
• “Somali Shopping for Organic Figs”
• “A Shipwrecked Person”
• “A Knock on the Door”
• “Anatomy”
• “Mimi”
• “Consolations After An Affair”
• “Haunted Aquarium”
• “Certain Nuances, Certain Gestures”
• “Indivisible”
• “Pastoral”
• “Editor”
• “The Banner”
• “You Are My Destination And Desire, Fading”
• “The Condemned Man”
• “Burn Down The Town, No Survivors”
• “Bewitched”
• “Saturdays Are For Bathing Betsy”
• “Quabbin Reservoir”
• “How Was Your Day?”
• “A Little Skull”
• “Storm”
• “Constant Defender”
• “Like a Saint”
• “Rising Absenteeism”
• “Zebras Anything”
• “I don’t know about the cold …”
• “Breathing”
• “Why You Wanna Know What Time It Is You Got an Appointment with Your Analyst”
• “The Salute”
• “The Cages”
• “The Ice Cream Man”
• “The White Thing”
• “Interruptions”
• “Leaving Mother Waiting for Father”
• “Brittle Family Photographs”
• “Lost River”
• “Wild Beasts”
• “Collect Call from Nepal”
• “Song of the Nightingales”
• “Barroom Confession”
• “Lust for Life”
• “The New Horses”
• “Damaged Stopper with Marigold”
• “Precious Little We Can Do”
• “Lucinda”
• “The Sky”
• “In New York”
• “Goodtime Jesus”
• “Coda”
• “Teaching the Ape to Write Poems”
• “Witches”
• “The Loon”
• “Where Babies Come From”
• “The Cowboy”
• “Man with Wooden Leg Escapes Prison”
• “I Am a Finn”
• “Father’s Day”
• “Camp of No Return”
• “More Later, Less the Same”
• “My Felisberto”
• “My Great Great Etc. Uncle Patrick Henry”
• “Never Again the Same”
• “Non-Stop”
• “Loyalty”
• “Restless Leg Syndrome”
• “What the City Was Like”
• “Like a Scarf”
• “Dream On”
• “Head of a White Woman Winking”
• “Days of Pie and Coffee”
• “Happy as the Day is Long”
• “Shut up and Eat Your Toad”
• “The New Ergonomics”
• “At the Clothesline”
• “The Blue Booby”
• “Bounden Duty”
• “The Chaste Stranger”
• “City at Night”
• “Cryptozoa”
• “The Definition of Gardening”
• “Demigoddess”
• “The Government Lake”
• “Half-Eaten”
• “The Shadowman”
• “It Wasn’t Me”
• “Jim’s All-Night Diner”
• “The Motorcyclists”
• “The New Chinese Fiction”
• “No Spitting Up”
• “Nuisance”
• “On the Subject of Doctors”
• “The Painter of the Night”
• “Pity Ascending with the Fog”
• “Pride’s Crossing”
• “Red Bricks and Camphor Trees”
• “Right Conduct”
• “Saint John of the Cross in Prison”
• “The Search for Lost Lives”
• “Shroud of the Gnome”
• “Spiderwebs”
• “The Square at Dawn”
• “The Thief”
• “To Fuzzy”
• “The Truth”
• “Trying to Help”
• “Fuck the Astronauts”
• “Success Comes to Cow Creek”
• “A Vagabond”
• “The Wheelchair Butterfly”
• “The Whole World’s Sadly Talking to Itself”
• “With a Child All Day”
• “The Workforce”
• “A Wedding”
• “The Walk Home”
• “Very Late, but Not too Late”
• “The List of Famous Hats”
• “The Lost Pilot”
• “The Wrong Way Home”
• “It Happens Like This”