Shroud of the Gnome

Speakers in James Tate's poems are not like those we know: a man's meditation on gardening renders him witless, another 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".Shroud of the Gnome is a bravura performance in Tate's signature style: playful, wicked, deliriously sober, charming, and dazzling. Here, once again, one of America's most masterful poets celebrates the inexplicable in his own strange tongue.

Where Babies Come From	p. 1
Days of Pie and Coffee	p. 2
A Knock on the Door	p. 5
Never Again the Same	p. 6
Restless Leg Syndrome	p. 8
The Blind Heron	p. 11
Acting on a Tip	p. 13
Shroud of the Gnome	p. 15
My Felisberto	p. 17
Same as You	p. 18
At the Days End Motel	p. 20
The Definition of Gardening	p. 21
Acupuncture	p. 23
Shut Up and Eat Your Toad	p. 24
Lafcadio	p. 26
Nonstop	p. 27
Everything for the Horse	p. 29
Dream On	p. 30
And That's the Good News	p. 33
Beautiful New Mirrors Have Arrived	p. 34
Different Kinds of Embroidery	p. 35
School of Paddling	p. 37
Of Two or Three Minds	p. 38
The Faults of the Mariner's Compass	p. 41
In His Hut Sat Baba Jaga, Hag-Faced and with a Leg of Clay	p. 42
A Road Open at Both Ends	p. 43
"Sodomy in Shakespeare's Sonnets"	p. 44
A Dangerous Adventure	p. 45
Faulty Diction	p. 47
Chronology of Events	p. 48
Who Will See Me Thru?	p. 49
Revenge of the Jagged Ambush Bug	p. 51
Admirable Bird	p. 53
You Be the One	p. 54
Smart	p. 56
The Sleeping Disorder Tour	p. 58
The Figure in the Carpet	p. 59
Edge City	p. 61
I Left My Couch in Tatamagouche	p. 63
Twenty-Five	p. 64
Brave Face	p. 66
Think of Your Absent Friend	p. 68
The New Ergonomics	p. 70
Per Diem	p. 72
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