James Tate

James Vincent Tate (1943–2015) was an American poet renowned for his surrealistic, comic, and absurdist style, whose debut collection The Lost Pilot (1967) was selected for the Yale Series of Younger Poets. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Selected Poems (1991) and the National Book Award for Worshipful Company of Fletchers (1994), along with numerous other honors including the Wallace Stevens Award and Guggenheim Fellowship. Poets.org, NYT Obituary