The Route as Briefed

by James Vincent Tate

Book Overview

The Route as Briefed collects prose by Pulitzer Prize winning poet James Tate. It is an amazingly eclectic collection, offering essays, interviews, short-short stories, memoirs, and even a recipe for squirrel brains in black butter. The essays and interviews touch on themes ranging from poetic influences to MFA programs, and from the role of humor in poetry to the nature of regional writing. The fiction selections--none more than four pages long--are...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0472096915
• ISBN13: 9780472096916
• Release Date: June 1999
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.6" x 8.1"