Quote of the day
There are no countries in the world less known by the British than these selfsame British Islands, or where more strange things are every day occurring.
James Tate
Born: December 8, 1943
Died: July 8, 2015 (aged 71)
Bio: James Vincent Tate was an American poet whose work earned him the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. He was a professor of English at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Known for:
- Dreams of a robot dancing bee (2002)
- A Worshipful Company of Fletchers (1994)
- Return to the city of white donkeys (2004)
- Shroud of the gnome (1997)
- Distance from loved ones (1990)