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Credits

Writer: James Tate; Genres: Fiction, Poetry; Publisher: Ecco Press
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By Ken Tucker
Ken Tucker
Ken Tucker
Ken Tucker is critic-at-large for EW

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-


Posted Mar 13, 2008
 

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