Hell, I Love Everybody: The Essential James Tate

Poems

By: James Tate

Narrated by: James Tate, Michael Earl Craig

An essential collection of James Tate’s extraordinary poems that will captivate today’s readers, with a foreword by Terrance Hayes

Celebrating James Tate’s work as it transcends convention, time, and everything that tells us, “No, you can’t do that,” Hell, I Love Everybody gives us the poet at his best, his most intimate, hopeful, inventive, and brilliant. John Ashbery called Tate the “poet of possibilities,” and this collection records forays into possibilities for American poetry’s future. With a foreword by Terrance Hayes, it is sure to give readers new and old a lasting collection of favorites.

Goodtime Jim

A great collection of James Tate’s poems read by the author and Michael Earl Craig. Yes, often funny, but also lyrical, subversive, moving, imaginative, and full of wisdom about the human condition. The collection spans Tate’s career and confirms that he wrote great work from beginning to end.

Surreal, absurd, and absolutely wonderful

Great selections from a master of the surreal and absurd that I will enjoy numerous times. I highly recommend. Get it now!