An essential collection of James Tate's extraordinary poems that will captivate today's readers, with an introduction by Terrance Hayes

Celebrating James Tate's work as it transcends convention, time, and everything that tells us, "No, you can't do that," Hell, I Love Everybody gives us the poet at his best, his most intimate, hopeful, inventive, and brilliant. John Ashbery called Tate the "poet of possibilities," and this collection records forays into possibilities for American poetry's future. With a new introduction by Terrance Hayes, it is sure to give readers, new and old, a lasting collection of favorites to be treasured for years to come.