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James Tate

American poet.

Born December 8th, 1943 in Kansas City. [ref]

Died July 8th, 2015 at 71 years old in Amherst. [ref]

Occupations
author, poet, schoolteacher, university teacher, writer

It is the secret of the world that all things subsist and do not die, but retire a little from sight and afterwards return again. Ralph Waldo Emerson