Allen Tate

Allen Tate

John Orley Allen Tate (November 19, 1899 – February 9, 1979) was an American poet, essayist, social commentator, and Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1943 to 1944.

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    Whether your kindness, mother,
    Is mother of silences.
    Allen Tate (1899–1979)

    A spade is not a spade, and it is just
    That any tremulous twisting of her lips
    Should be mere prettiness, or call it grace
    The canto amoroso of her hips.
    Allen Tate (1899–1979)

    And then he heard some old forgotten talk
    At a short distance like a hundred miles
    Filling the air with its secrecy,
    And was afraid of all the living air....
    Allen Tate (1899–1979)

    Come to me, Jenny, let’s dance a bit tonight,
    The long small tremor’s at my back again....
    Allen Tate (1899–1979)

    By the roadside a hideous carrion, quivering
    On a clean bed of pebbly clay,
    Her legs flexed in the air like a courtesan,
    Burning and sweating venomously,
    Calmly exposed its belly, ironic and wan,
    Clamorous with foul ecstasy.
    Allen Tate (1899–1979)