Memoir of the Hawk

by Tate, James

• ISBN13: 9780060935436
• ISBN10: 006093543X
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-03-17
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publications

Summary

Memoir of the Hawk creates a world populated by hundreds of characters, believable and strange, tugged at the edges by the unexpected. In the privacy of their homes, who can save them from themselves? In the forests and hills and on the beautiful lakes, what could possibly be wrong? Even in the sweet hometown, with its kindly police, menace lurks in a thousand disguises. Mystery and magic surround this metropolis of the imagination. Once again, James Tate has given us a world of surprising pleasures: ... lost in the interstellar space between teacups in the cupboard, found in the beak of a downy woodpecker, the lovers staring into the void and then jumping over it, flying into their beautiful tomorrows like the heroes of a storm.

Author Biography

James Tate is the author of thirteen books of poetry, including Worshipful Company of Fletchers, which won the National Book Award, and Selected Poems, which won the Pulitzer Prize and the William Carlos Williams Award. In 1995 he was awarded the Tanning Prize by the Academy of American Poets. James Tate teaches at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst.

Table of Contents

New Blood	p. 1
Vale of the White Horse	p. 2
I Must Have Been That Man	p. 3
Te Deum Laudamus	p. 5
Young Man with a Ham	p. 6
The Lovely Arc of a Meteor in the Night Sky	p. 7
A True Story	p. 8
Cunning	p. 9
The Little Brother	p. 10
You Don't Know Me	p. 11
Overheard on the Driving Range	p. 12
The Storm and Stress Period	p. 13
Endless Time	p. 14
Slow Day at Manny's	p. 15
The Workforce	p. 16
Family Sorrow	p. 17
Witches	p. 18
Sudden Interest in the Dead	p. 19
The Experiment with John	p. 20
An Afternoon in Hell	p. 21
Memory	p. 22
Mental-Health Workers	p. 23
September	p. 24
The Second Mrs. Tyler	p. 25
Behind the Milk Bottle	p. 26
Thinking Ahead to Possible Options and a Worst-Case Scenario	p. 27
T.B. Blues	p. 28
Boom-Boom	p. 29
Grand Opera	p. 30
Madonna of the Chair	p. 31
How the People Are Governed	p. 32
Introspection	p. 33
An Afternoon Stroll	p. 34
Traveler	p. 35
Blanc Is Noir	p. 36
War and Peace	p. 37
Our Lady of the Shivers	p. 38
Hotel of the Golden Dawn	p. 39
Year of Progress	p. 40
Maine	p. 41
Precious Little We Can Do	p. 42
Toads Talking by a River	p. 43
Whereabouts	p. 44
My Private Tasmania	p. 45
At the End of the Little Street	p. 46
Overcoming Self-Consciousness	p. 47
Rememberability	p. 48
Plentitude	p. 49
Fasting Day	p. 50
Scattered Reflections	p. 51
No Explanation	p. 53
The London Times	p. 54
The End of Zen	p. 55
Geese at Night	p. 56
You Think You Know a Woman	p. 57
Curious	p. 58
Denied Areas	p. 59
Night Blindness	p. 60
To Beg for Food in a Contemptible Way	p. 61
The Shifting Dapples of Sunlight	p. 62
Torture	p. 63
Her Silhouette Against the Alpenglow	p. 64
Hanging by a Thread	p. 65
Chirpy, the Ruffian	p. 66
Snake Charming Secrets of the Indian Subcontinent	p. 67
Doink	p. 68
Somehow Not Aware That She Was Heaven-Born	p. 69
From the Morning Twilight to the Gloaming	p. 70
A Children's Story about an Anemic Bedbug	p. 71
To Each His Own	p. 72
Burnt Green Earth	p. 73
All Over the Lot	p. 74
Watching an Owl Slowly Wink	p. 75
Overworked and Haunted	p. 76
Morbidly Anxious	p. 77
Fork-Tongued	p. 78
Negative Employee Situation	p. 79
The Rug	p. 80
Just to Feel Human	p. 81
Wondrous Object	p. 82
Beacon	p. 83
The Lack of Good Qualities	p. 84
The Arrival	p. 85
The Choirmaster	p. 86
Climbing Like a Monkey Through the Thick Branches	p. 87
Perfection	p. 88
The Fine Rain	p. 89
Invisible	p. 90
The Plumber	p. 91
Dreams of Carefree Living	p. 92
A New Lifestyle	p. 93
Beauty Prizes	p. 94
Ashes of Roses	p. 95
A Lorgnette, a Parachute	p. 96
Her First Novel	p. 97
Like a Manta Ray	p. 98
The Man of the People	p. 99
Tickle Me Pink	p. 100
Creatures	p. 101
Pillow Fights with Myself	p. 102
Edison's Later Years	p. 103
The Reproductive System	p. 104
The Hundred-Eyed Security forces	p. 105
The Old Candy, the New Candy	p. 106
Primeval	p. 107
Farewell to a Friend	p. 108
The Black Dog	p. 109
Ultraviolet Ukulele	p. 110
The Raising of Quibbles	p. 111
The Muse's Darling	p. 112
Praying at the Bus Stop Is Forbidden	p. 113
Duel to the Death	p. 114
I Surrender	p. 115
The New Love Slave	p. 116
The Eggs	p. 117
Wasted	p. 118
The Drought	p. 119
The Splendid Rainbow	p. 120
Mob of Good Old Boys	p. 121
A Walk with Twinkie	p. 122
Frontier Guards	p. 123
Carl's Shoes	p. 124
Hayden and Madge	p. 126
A Tattered Bible Stuffed with Memos	p. 127
A Winner	p. 128
The Bookclub	p. 129
The Shallots	p. 130
The Univeiling	p. 131
Bitterness	p. 132
A Fresh Performance	p. 133
A Little Birdie Told Her	p. 134
The Real Thing	p. 135
We Aim to Please	p. 136
Still the Same	p. 137
For Its Own Sake	p. 138
Penury	p. 139
Wild Beasts	p. 140
Hungry Hearts	p. 141
In the Ring or on the Field, Igor Hummed	p. 142
Demigoddess	p. 143
The Painter of the Night	p. 144
The Wine Talks	p. 145
Right Conduct	p. 146
Time to Conjure Up the Good Spirit	p. 147
Worldling	p. 148
The Eternal Ones of the Dream	p. 149
Boobies of Fernando Po	p. 150
The Magic Flight	p. 151
Link	p. 152
War of Nerves	p. 153
Red in Tooth and Claw	p. 154
Carnivorous Sponges	p. 155
The Guilty One	p. 156
The Diagnosis	p. 157
From Whence They Came	p. 158
What Kady Did	p. 159
Swift, Silent and Deadly	p. 160
Kinky's Head	p. 161
The Flying Petunias	p. 162
The Mailman	p. 163
Loving Nell	p. 164
The Phantom Gardener	p. 165
Second Growth	p. 166
Look at Me	p. 167
The Closing, the Nose Wiping	p. 168
How An imals Live	p. 169
The Shadowlife	p. 170
When You Are Lost	p. 171
Swiftsure Blue	p. 172
Capital Punishment	p. 173
Memoir of the Hawk	p. 174
Rapture	p. 175
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