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| | Guest Editor James Tate, The Best American Poetry 1997 |
 | | In 1966, when he won the Yale Younger Poets Prize for his first book, The Lost Pilot, he was among the youngest poets ever thus honored. |
 | | His Selected Poems (Wesleyan/University Press of New England, 1991) was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1992, and his most recent book, Worshipful Company of Fletchers (Ecco Press), won the National Book Award two years later. |
 | | Other collections by James Tate include Constant Defender (Ecco Press, 1983), Reckoner (Wesleyan University Press, 1986), and Distance from Loved Ones (Wesleyan/University Press of New England, 1990). |
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