Shroud of the gnome
Subtitle: poems
By: by James Tate.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Ecco Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Hopewell, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 72
Description: Speakers in James Tate's poems are and are not like those we know: a man's meditation on gardening renders him witless; another man traps theories and then lets them loose in a city park; a nun confides that "it was her / cowboy pride that got her through"; a gnome's friend inhabits a world where "a great eschatological ferment is at work."