<DIV><P>"Tate’s originality was confirmed almost thirty years ago . . . testifying to the broad appeal of his wonderfully eccentric and generous poetry."—John Ashbery</P><P><B>James Tate</B>’s <I>Selected Poems</I> was published in 1991, for which he received the Pulitzer Prize and the William Carlos Williams Award. His collection, <I>Worshipful Company of Fletchers</I>, published in 1994, was awarded the National Book Award. In 1995, the Academy of American Poets presented him with the Tanning Prize. <I>Shroud of the Gnome</I> was published by Ecco Press in 1997. Tate teaches at the University of Massachusetts, in Amherst.</P></DIV>