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Book Review
The Ghost Soldiers (2008)
| Mar 14, 2008
Ken Tucker
Ken Tucker is critic-at-large for EW
EW's GRADE
A-Details Writer: James Tate; Genres: Fiction, Poetry; Publisher: Ecco Press
The Ghost Soldiers is a collection of short prose poems, many resembling descriptions of dreams.
Sample Verse
''A red Frisbee sailed overhead and we all knelt down and prayed. What we
were praying for I don't know. In fact, I don't even know what I was
doing with this group of lunatics.''
Bottom Line
Atypical in form, the poems resonate with James Tate's familiar voice:
plainspoken, quizzical, and deeply interested in small, revealing
gestures. A-
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