Hell, I Love Everybody

An essential collection of James Tates extraordinary poems that will captivate todays readers, with a foreword by Terrance Hayes

Celebrating James Tates work as it transcends convention, time, and everything that tells us, No, you cant do that, Hell, I Love Everybody gives us the poet at his best, his most intimate, hopeful, inventive, and brilliant. John Ashbery called Tate the poet of possibilities, and this collection records forays into possibilities for American poetrys future. With a foreword by Terrance Hayes, it is sure to give readers new and old a lasting collection of favorites.

Enter a world where the mundane and the mythic collideoften with hilarious and heartbreaking results.

• Surrealist Poetry: Meet an extraterrestrial who just wants to see a real cowboy, a policeman with a goat named the Prince of Peace, and a dog who keeps coming back from the dead.
• Absurdist Humor: Discover a candy store where stickups are against the rules, a man who cant get his couch through a restaurant door, and the proper way to choose a new Pope (it involves a 7-Eleven).
• Deadpan Voice: Tates signature conversational, matter-of-fact style makes even the most bizarre events feel strangely, movingly familiar.
• The Poet of Possibilities: A collection that showcases why John Ashbery called him a master of invention, creating worlds where anything can, and frequently does, happen.