James Tate (writer) - Published Works

Published Works

Full-length poetry collections

• "The Eternal Ones of the Dream: Selected Poems 1990 - 2010" (Ecco Press, 2012)
• The Ghost Soldiers (Ecco Press, 2008)
• Return to the City of White Donkeys (2004)
• Memoir of the Hawk (2002)
• Shroud of the Gnome (Ecco Press, 1997)
• Worshipful Company of Fletchers: Poems (Ecco Press, 1994) —winner of the National Book Award
• Selected Poems (Wesleyan University Press, 1991) —winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the William Carlos Williams Award)
• Distance from Loved Ones (Wesleyan University Press), 1990)
• Reckoner (Wesleyan University Press, 1986)
• Constant Defender (Ecco Press, 1983)
• Riven Doggeries (Ecco Press, 1979)
• Viper Jazz (Wesleyan University Press, 1976)
• Absences: New Poems (Little, Brown & Co., 1972)
• Hints to Pilgrims(Halty Ferguson, 1971)
• The Oblivion Ha-Ha (Little, Brown & Co., 1970)
• The Torches (1968)
• The Lost Pilot (Yale University Press, 1967)

Chapbooks

• Lost River (Sarabande Books, 2003)
• Land of Little Sticks (Metacom Press, 1981)
• Just Shades (Parallel Editions, 1985, illustrated by John Alcorn)
• Apology for Eating Geoffrey Movius’ Hyacinth (Unicorn Press, 1972)
• Amnesia People (Little Balkans Press, 1970)
• Wrong Songs (H. Ferguson, 1970)
• Shepherds of the Mist (Black Sparrow Press, 1969)
• Torches (Unicorn Press 1968)

Prose

• Dreams of a Robot Dancing Bee: 44 Stories (Verse Press, 2002)
• The Route as Briefed (University of Michigan Press, 1999)
• Hottentot Ossuary (Temple Bar Bookshop, 1974)

Collaborations

• Lucky Darryl (Release Press, 1977, a novel co-written with Bill Knott)
• Are You Ready, Mary Baker Eddy??? (Cloud Marauder Press, 1970, poems co-written with Bill Knott)