{"product_id":"return-to-the-city-of-white-donkeys","title":"Return to the City of White Donkeys","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn his fourteenth collection of poetry, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner James Tate continues exploring his own peculiar brand of poetry, transforming our everyday world, a world where women give birth to wolves, wild babies are found in gardens, and Saint Nick visits on a hot July day. Tate's signature style draws on a marvelous variety of voices and characters, all of which sound vaguely familiar, but are each fantastically unique, brilliant, and eccentric.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYet, as Charles Simic observed in the New York Review of Books, \"With all his reliance on chance, Tate has a serious purpose. He's searching for a new way to write a lyric poem.\" He continues, \"To write a poem out of nothing at all is Tate's genius. For him, the poem is something one did not know was there until it was written down. . . . Just about anything can happen next in this kind of poetry and that is its attraction. . . . Tate is not worried about leaving us a little dazed. . . . He succeeds in ways for which there are a few precedents. He makes me think that anti-poetry is the best friend poetry ever had.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ecco Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48836067721421,"sku":"9780060750022","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0557\/1529\/9533\/files\/imageloader_60c79521-cf58-4a66-8525-86975de30d22.jpg?v=1790992673","url":"https:\/\/booksatmidnight.com\/products\/return-to-the-city-of-white-donkeys","provider":"Books At Midnight","version":"1.0","type":"link"}