"Poetry is everywhere; it just needs editing."
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Pulitzer Prize winnersAcademics from the United StatesPoets from the United StatesPeople from MissouriNational Book Award winners
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The Route as Briefed (1999)
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James Tate
James Vincent Tate (December 8, 1943 – July 8, 2015) was an American poet whose work earned him the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award.
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