"The flowers, trees, birds, clouds, and effects of light that Schuyler describes with such elan, even if only glimpsed from the window of his apartment, could easily be transposed to the poetry written in Japan or Persia many centuries ago. Even more, his culture and learning, worn so lightly as almost to pass unnoticed, link his verse to other and larger traditions, as in this reflection on Baudelaire - clearly intended as an artistic credo of sorts ..." - Open Letters Monthly
"The flowers, trees, birds, clouds, and effects of light that Schuyler describes with such elan, even if only glimpsed from the window of his apartmen...
In Selected Poems, we experience the full range of James Schuyler's achievement, confirming that he was among the late twentieth century's truly vital and distinctive poetic voices. One of the most significant writers of the New York School--which unofficially included John Ashbery, Frank O'Hara, and Kenneth Koch, among others--Schuyler was strongly influenced by both art and music in his work, often incorporating rapid shifts in sound, shape, and color within his poems that almost gave his work the effect of a collage and engendered comparisons with Whitman and Rimbaud.
In Selected Poems, we experience the full range of James Schuyler's achievement, confirming that he was among the late twentieth century's t...
A COLLECTION OF UNPUBLISHED POEMS FROM ONE OF THE MOST DISTINCTIVE POETIC VOICES OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
of an evening real as paint on canvas. The kind that makes me ache to have the gift for dusting off cliches: not, make it new, but, see it, hear it, freshly. The context (good morrow, haven't we met in this context before?) in which, squelch, a brush lifted a load of pigment from the thick glass palette, and, concentrated,...
A COLLECTION OF UNPUBLISHED POEMS FROM ONE OF THE MOST DISTINCTIVE POETIC VOICES OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
