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Tate, James, 1943-2015.

Worshipful company of Fletchers : poems / James Tate.

1st pbk. ed.

Hopewell, N.J. : Ecco Press, ©1994.

82 pages ; 21 cm

Poetry of the absurd. In Little Poem with Argyle Socks, he writes: "Behind every great man / there sits a rat. / And behind every great rat, / there's a flea. / Besides the flea there is an encyclopedia. / Every now and then the flea sneezes, looks up, / and flies into action, reorganizing history. / The rat says, God, I hate irony. / To which the great man replies, / Now now now, darling, drink your tea."

Poetry.

Poetry.

National Book Award, 1994

Go, youth -- What a patient does -- Autosuggestion: USS North Carolina -- A missed opportunity -- 50 views of Tokyo -- What the city was like -- The great root system -- Loyalty -- Little poem with Argyle socks -- A manual of enlargement -- Head of a white woman winking -- Like a scarf -- More later, less the same -- How the Pope is chosen -- Becoming a scout -- Annual report -- Back to nature -- The wrong way home -- The nitrogen cycle -- The early years -- A new beginning -- The documentary we were making -- A glowworm, a lemur, and some women -- I got blindsided -- The new Chinese fiction -- Abandoned conceptions -- We go to a fire -- Desire -- Where were you? -- Porch theory -- From an island -- The parade and after the parade -- An eland, in retirement -- Jim left the pet cemetery with a feeling of disgust -- The new work -- We love the venerable house -- In my own backyard -- The morning news -- Summer, Maine coast -- Color in the garden -- Inspiration -- Worshipful Company of Fletchers -- Happy as the day is long.

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