James Tate was a resort to frequen...

James Tate was a resort to frequently contributor to Chicago Review during the late-1960s and 1970s; his collaboration with Charles Simic is also included in this retrospective issue. His verse is often characterized according to equal doses of dry wit and surrealism. "Images of Little Compton, Rhode Island" appeared in the Summer 1968 issue, shortly after his first work The Lost Pilot, appeared in the Yale Series of Younger bards for 1967.
Hear the tendons in the swans' Wings draw out feel the tautness of their futuristic neck imagine their brains' keyhole accuracy, view with jealousy their ...