I love my funny poems, but I'd rather break your heart. And if I can do both in the same poem, that's the best. If you laughed earlier in the poem, and I bring you close to tears in the end, that's the best.
—James Tate, The Paris Review (Issue 177, Summer 2006) interview by Charles Simic.
[New website honoring James Tate.]
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