Dreams of a Robot Dancing Bee: 44 Stories

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- James Tate - recipient of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award - is one of the most popular and prestigious American poets of his generation. This is his first collection of fiction. - Received starred reviews in Kirkus and Publishers' Weekly, and was reviewed in the New Yorker. - Tate's poetry books published by Ecco Press and widely distributed in all major chain and independent bookstores. - Currently there is only a cloth edition; paperback edition is not scheduled. - Tate teaches in the MFA program at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. -Dreams of a Robot Dancing Bee will be a must-own for the many fans of Tate's poetry; the stories, which are clearly written, strange, funny, slightly surrealistic and wistful, will appeal to fans of contemporary American fiction authors such as Don DeLillo and David Foster Wallace.

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JAMES TATE is the author of thirteen books of poetry (most recently Memoir of the Hawk, 2001), and the recipient of numerous awards including fellowships from the NEA and Guggenheim Foundation, the National Book Award, and the Pulitzer Prize. Dreams of a Robot Dancing Bee is his first collection of stories.