Reviews for Distance From Loved Ones

The average rating for Distance From Loved Ones based on 2 reviews is 5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2011-02-06 00:00:00 Raymond Rodriguez James Tate is a poet like no other I have ever read: equally profound and unfathomable. That is to say, I am deeply moved reading poems I can barely make sense of. Also, I often can't tell if what I'm feeling is closer to joy or grief. The only transparent poem I found in this book, "The Expert," is a send-up of the academic, who ... talks on and on. At times he seems lost in his own personal references, to be adrift in a lonely pleasure craft. He has spent his life collecting evidence, and now it is oozing away down the aisles of indifferent eavesdroppers. ...

Review # 2 was written on 2009-12-06 00:00:00 Charles Poteet Better than any illegal substance I've ever smoked or ingested. After a couple of collections I thought were so-so, this book struck me as quintessential Tate, simultaneously wild and elegant, violent and wistful, passionate and laugh out loud absurd. I started reeling in this wildcat beautyfarm, it was a big one. Her ledger of love was a blur, her helmet was full of holes. "O Marcel," she said to me, "O Marcel, there's a doorbell in your head. Don't touch it!" Again and again Tate creates an unreal little cosmos that inexorably expands the verbal space inside your head--and then explodes. from Under Mounting Pressure. They took out our brains and hurled them into the reefs. I'm holding a crust of bread in my palm, I see our initials rising from the lithosphere, a couple of pinpoints of utility needed elsewhere, and I remember how to cry, and I remember you, my last kin. from You Are My Destination and Desire, Fading