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Return to the City of White Donkeys: Poems by James Tate

jcschlotfelt2313's review

4.0

Tate's poems usually feel a bit more like absurd short (very, very short) stories. This 2004 collection has a good deal of anxiety over modernity. Lots of snapshots of post-9/11 life and the internet-ification of things. Mostly funny and/or touching. Does occasionally lull with a few clunky poems back-to-back, but definitely another great collection from the late, great Tate.