biography
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Tate, James (Vincent)
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| lived:
| (1943– )
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| biography:
| Poet, born in Kansas City, Missouri, USA. He studied at the University of Missouri (1963–4), Kansas State (1965 BA), and the University of Iowa (1967 MFA). He taught at several universities, including Columbia (1969–71) and the University of Massachusetts, Amherst (1971). He is known for his preoccupation with the use of language, seen in such books as The Lost Pilot (1967) and Constant Defender (1983). In 1992 he won the Pulitzer Prize for his Selected Poems (1991), and his later works include Shroud of the Gnome (1997). |
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