Shroud Of The Gnome

The speakers in Pulitzer Prize-winning James Tate's poems are unlike any we know. A man's meditation on gardening renders him witless. Another traps theories, then lets them loose in a city park. . . . SHROUD OF THE GNOME is a bravura performance in Tate's signature style. Here, once again, one of America's most masterful poets celebrates the inexplicable in his own strange tongue .