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Little known facts about a solitary, intelligent creature that surprises the scientific community. ... Read more

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Oozey Octopus
I have purchased quite a few of Suzanne Tate's nature books for my grandson, now 3 yrs. old. He truly enjoys each of them and remembers the facts too. We read them over and over. ... Read more

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The true story of the Tate family who lived at Kitty Hawk and helped the famous brothers. ... Read more

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Best Whistler Book I've Seen
I had been looking for a Whistler book, and this was simply the best one that I was able to track down.It includes the color images of the artist's best-klnown works, including his portraits, nocturnes, and etchings.The text is informative and comprehensive.My only complaint is that many of the images were smaller than I would have liked.When I get a book like this, the artwork is the main draw--not the text.More full-page images would have been nice.

The artist as the perfectionist
This book does an excellent job of exploring the many contradictions of the life and career of an artist who was both his own biggest fan/promoter and his own harshest critic. The book presents the many talents (artist,etcher,interior designer to name a few) and his many flaws (vain, arrogant, bitter and self serving attitude) while still showing the human side of the artist . The illustrations are complete and a glorious showing of both his popular works as well as his less known pieces. The triad of this book, "Diabolical Designs" and "Beyond the Myth" reveal an artist who deserves much more critical and popular attention. ... Read more

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An inspirational story, telling of Wilbur Wright's trials and his dog, Flyer. ... Read more

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Interesting family behavior of the American alligator. Winner of a Children's Choice Award. ... Read more

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Educational and fun
My 4 year old loves this series of books from Suzanne Tate. It is a great way to teach them about nature while having fun, and learning to read at the same time. I learned a lot from these books also. ... Read more

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Story and facts from Suzanne's exciting research at a pelican rookery. ... Read more

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"Tate's originality was confirmed almost thirty years ago . . . testifying to the broad appeal of his wonderfully eccentric and generous poetry."-John Ashbery

James Tate's Selected Poems was published in 1991, for which he received the Pulitzer Prize and the William Carlos Williams Award. His collection, Worshipful Company of Fletchers, published in 1994, was awarded the National Book Award. In 1995, the Academy of American Poets presented him with the Tanning Prize. Shroud of the Gnome was published by Ecco Press in 1997. Tate teaches at the University of Massachusetts, in Amherst.

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This digital document, covering the life and work of James (Vincent) Tate, is an entry from Contemporary Authors, a reference volume published by Thompson Gale. The length of the entry is 3270 words. The page length listed above is based on a typical 300-word page. Although the exact content of each entry from this volume can vary, typical entries include the following information:

• Place and date of birth and death (if deceased)
• Family members
• Education
• Professional associations and honors
• Employment
• Writings, including books and periodicals
• A description of the author's work
• References to further readings about the author

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Term paper due tomorrow? Need to bone up for a test? Or just looking for the best information about a favorite literary work?

Turn to "Poetry for Students" to get your research done in record time. Brought to you by the Gale Group--the world's leading source of literary criticism and analysis--this e-doc contains: author biography; poem summary; poem text (if available); discussion of the work's themes, style, and historical context; a compendium of in-depth critical material; study questions; suggestions for further reading; and much more.

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James Tate (1771-1843) was the highly successful and respected Master of Richmond school for thirty-six years. He was ordained deacon in 1794, priest in 1800, and appointed Canon Residentiary of St Paul's in 1833. The 124 letters to four correspondents, notably the most intimate and revealing of Tate's likeable, learned personality to his old friend John Hutton of Marske Hall, cover the years 1791 to 1843. ... Read more

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Salty Seagull says, "Lots of stickers for you!" Stickaroo! Sticker Book has over 80 stickers and 12 pages of scenes from Suzanne Tate's Nature Series illustrated by James Melvin. Stickers are removable. ... Read more

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"The daily routine of our lives can be good and even wonderful, but there is still a hunger in us for the mystery of the deep waters, and poetry can fulfill that hunger." So writes James Tate, editor of the 1997 edition of Best American Poetry. The poems that follow his essay bear out the claim. Including work by Allen Ginsberg, Denise Levertov, Mark Strand, and other first-rate poets, the 1997 collection again delights the reader with the variety and quality of poetry now being written. Here is a taste, from Mark Strand's contribution, "Morning, Noon and Night": "Whatever the starcharts told us to watch for or the maps / Said we would find, nothing prepared us for what we discovered. / We toiled in the shadowless depths of noon, / While an alien wind slept in the branches, and dead leaves / Turned to dust in the streets." This series consistently produces collections that are essential reading for poetry lovers.Book Description
The Best American Poetry is the one indispensable volume for readers eager to follow what's new in poetry today. Sales continue to grow and plaudits keep coming in for this "high-voltage testament to the vitality of American poetry" (Booklist). Selected by prizewinning guest editor James Tate, the seventy-five best poems of the year were chosen from more than three dozen magazines and range from the comic to the cosmic, from the contemplative to the sublime. In addition to showcasing our leading bards -- such as John Ashbery, Jorie Graham, Robert Hass, and Mark Strand -- the collection marks an auspicious debut for eye-opening younger poets. With comments from the poets themselves offering insights into their work, The Best American Poetry delivers the startling and imaginative writing that more and more people have come to expect from this prestigious series. ... Read more

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She was like a piece of the sky looking at herself...
"...poetry speaks against an essential backdrop of silence. It is almost reluctant to speak at all, knowing that it can never fully name what is at the heart of its intentions. There is a prayerful, haunted silence between words, between phrases, between images, ideas and lines." ~ pg. 19

Used books hold within their pages additional mysteries and this one was no exception. Also, when the first poem in a book makes you cry, it is almost guaranteed you will be finding additional poems to love. "That Cold Summer" by Nin Andrews is so startling in imaginative beauty and many of the poems seem to flow together with a similar idea.

"Often as children, my friend and I used to pretend we had wings. Attaching towels to our backs with safety pins, we'd leap from sofas and chairs, thudding ungracefully on the floor ...But what is it these angels represent to us if no the ability to lift off the planet, to escape the pull of gravity? And this, I think, is one of the reasons I write." ~ Nin Andrews

The Butterfly Effect by Harry Humes presents ideas to ponder as does Karen Volkman's "Infernal" where she writes:

"The revenant sprawls by the pool
assessing opulent stucco and glossy indigo."

I love the way the poem ends:

"I stay close to the water,
you stay close to the shore."

I thought it was rather intriguing that when I had just read The Best American Poetry book edited by A.R. Ammons, that I should open this book and find a "Worldwide Travel Specialist's" business card right at his poem: "From Strip." While I wouldn't mind a vacation to New Zealand, I do find many of the poetry books by David Lehman to be journeys into many minds and enjoyable escapes into poetry.

"she was, like a piece of the sky looking at herself.
She watched him like a deer caught in the headlights, staring

until he touched her shoulder, and he shuddered.
Colder than snow, she was. Donald said that's why

he invited her in to warm herself. She had a long
wind inside her than fanned the flames a brilliant blue."

~ from Nin Andrew's "That Cold Summer"

~The Rebecca Review

One of the very best in the series
Leave it to James Tate.The poems in this collection are witty, profound, whimsical, and memorable.There isn't one I wouldn't finish reading if I came across it in its original source.

Unlike some of the unpolished PC rants in Rich's collection, these are poems that truly matter because they reflect on what Faulkner called "the verities of the human heart."Unlike some of the fatally over-ambitious poems in Hollander's collection, these poems are less than epic length but more than haiku -- just right.

I'm mostly a library reader, but this is the one I might actually buy.

One of the better volumes in the series
I have been reading this series since 1993 and I feel that this is one of the strongest ones in the series. Some good choices from the better known poets, and wonderful poems by poets I was unfamiliar with, including ThomasSayers Ellis (whose "Atomic Bride" is sure to become a classic).Though the book may drift a little towards the middle in terms of taste,Tate does a good job of mixing different aesthetics into this volume. Also,I think Tate's introduction is the most memorable I've read from theseries.

A collection of strong, widely divergent poets.
This anthology represents the current standardaspiring writers must live up to. I look to this collection for a vivisection of the poetry "mood" prevelant in the past year. It is encouraging tofind such a diversity of writers between the covers of one book. I especially applaud theinclusion of "new" writers such as Bob Hicok. He has been a local favorite in southeastern Michigan for the past couple of years, and I am delighted to see him receiving national attention. I highly recommend this volume of poetry. ... Read more

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Memoir of the Hawk creates a world populated by hundreds of characters, believable and strange, tugged at the edges by the unexpected. In the privacy of their homes, who can save them from themselves? In the forests and hills and on the beautiful lakes, what could possibly be wrong? Even in the sweet hometown, with its kindly police, menace lurks in a thousand disguises. Mystery and magic surround this metropolis of the imagination. Once again, James Tate has given us a world of surprising pleasures:

... lost in the interstellar space between teacups in the cupboard, found in the beak of a downy woodpecker, the lovers staring into the void and then jumping over it, flying into their beautiful tomorrows like the heroes of a storm.

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memoir of the hawk
i have read and enjoyed other collections by tate but this one has been the most enjoyable to me.tate's language isn't as convoluted and heavy-handed as many contemporary poets, and he manages to balance light, easily-readable language with craft and mastery.this is one of my favorite books of poetry because this balance allows for academic acceptance while maintaining reader access-points that i think would let any person enjoy reading this book.

Enthralling. Fresh. Unique. Pulitzer-worthy.
I'm a not usually a big poetry guy, but this collection of poems enthralled me. So fresh. So unique. For once I agree that a work should have won the Pulitzer, as this one did. Tate combines his fresh images together into poems that surprise you, shock you, inspire you, and ultimately keep you flipping the pages. They're great to be read aloud. Few, if any, rhymes and metered sections, his poems tell short, imagistic tales of proverbial wisdom.

Why do the doves fly out of the priests eyes?
Is the old woman really going to bite your fingers?
Are the toads actually talking?
Why would a mother and son pretend they are Adam and Eve?
Why did they name their flower shop Murder, Inc.?

If you're looking for Walt Whitman, go somewhere else, but if you're in the mood for a more comical William Carlos Williams, a more formal E.E. Cummings, a cleaner Bukowski, then James Tate just might be your guy.

-- Reviewed by Jonathan Stephens

Compelling/Absurd
I was drawn to this having read Tate's "Worshipful Company of Fletchers" and his "Selected Poems". The former I loved, but the later felt more subdued. Here in "The Memoir of the Hawk" we have another set of poems which truly give the reader joy. I found myself rereading nearly every poem to enjoy the images and unexpected events. I laughed out loud at many of these poems, good solid laughter from the strangeness of the world of the poem and at times from straight comedy.

Not a book for those more aligned to SERIOUS and/or FORMAL poetry. The best comparison I can make is that much of Tate's ideas and images are like the best of "They Might Be Giants" (the band)...lyrical, musical, absurd and at the same time compelling.

Still The Master
I had the idea to write an impassioned defense of this book, but it is too hot, I don't have the energy.And really, it was the wrong idea anyways -- this book doesn't need an impassioned, intellectual defense.

It is a little too long.There are poems in it that are weak and that stand out against the others.But there are poems in this book that are heartbreaking, astonishing, and beautiful. James Tate can still move through a poem nimbly, artfully, and darkly in a way that no one else can. I began reading this book tainted by my contemporaries' cynicism, and the poems rocketed up through the dense cloud of all that and shone brightly.

Not all of them.Of course.

But James Tate, for all his occasional doddering steps, continues to take great leaps across the landscape of the imagination and the world. ... Read more

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A story of daring rescues by men of the U.S. Life-Saving Service at the turn of the century. ... Read more