Word: tate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Rejoice, perhaps. Last week was published a superb volume by a member of our generation. James Tate, 23, is the Yale Younger Poet for 1967, "one of the youngest" to receive that award, as his editors point out. He is unmistakably the best winner in at least five years, since Alan Dugan; and the Yale award itself, I would argue, is the most significant of our domestic awards, incapable of the antiquarianism to which Pulitzer judges seem so prone, and also (under Dudley Witts's lone and brilliant editorship) unthreatened by the coterie pressures and needs to compromise that seem...
This passage from "The Shop Keeper" suggests Tate's interest in empathizing with the aged (though I'm not convinced of its success); more tellingly, it suggests Tate's virtuosity at reading emotions in the physical world, and in organizing physical reality through symbolized emotions. In "Reapers of the Water," he sees an old wisherwoman...
...Clearly Tate has keen eyes that penetrate appearance...
Many it the time Tate's wild imagination gets him out of a tight corner. It is our good fortune he is such a poet, because in his verse the remotest disparities succumb to his technique, and make his imagination ours. Is it possible that he has done what he seems to have done here in. "The Descent...
...fiat -sometimes the fiat of one man. And it can be art for a while and then not art. It's obvious today that comics are art. Just because these things are vulgar, doesn't mean they are not art." Says the former director of the Tate Gallery, Sir John Rothenstein: "Art derives from the intention of the artist. But time is the only impeccable judge...