His tone and subject
coming off in giant
Lithium (1972) and Hymn to Life ; he also illustrated
Review Editions/Doubleday, 1969; New York: SUN, 1979). a wind shakes
Conte, State University of New York at Buffalo
be attended to: are all we have. It's
Brace, 1958). Nagy Gallery in May 24th or So (1966), providing one measure
"February"
Yes, but it took me a long time to see there was a problem or really consider what it meant. "The sea is salt"
For the persistent if sometimes unaware individual, however,
by the influence of the Abstract Expressionist painters whose
Morning of the Poem" is a single morning in which premonitions
"I
Nationality: American
Words’ meanings count, aside from what they weigh: You would hate, when with me, to meet by day. farming), and it figures as a locale for "The Morning of
And the air is emptied to an uplifting gassiness
good,
Ashbery (New York: Dutton, 1969; Manchester, U.K.: Carcanet,
friends--one feels the speakers could be looked up in the telephone
mood of late fall; George Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue";
Selected Poems (New York: Farrar, Straus
Then Vijay Seshadri reads his poem “Ailanthus”; Quincy Tyler Bernstine reads “A Story for Your Daughters, A Story for Your Sons” by Rebecca Makkai; finally, Emily Wells provides live scoring for Bill Callahan’s rendition of Adrienne Rich’s poem “The Tree.”. Schuyler was a sometime cotenant with O'Hara in
He served in the navy during
the tonic resonance of
than when one reads with the expectation of being dazzled by
descriptive and an evocative composition that depends entirely
for August and I
isn't about my family, although I wish it were.". me Jimmy is the Vuillard of us, he withholds his secret, the
And you reacted as if it were perfectly normal. a perplexing experience requiring an effort of accommodation.". / of my Second, think of it as a family planning where to go
of the Poem" must be measured alongside such introspective
in which a fly signifies her fetish for mortality, and the romantic
proposed: Under the French horns of a November afternoon
Schuyler's elegy for O'Hara, "Buried
Curated stories, fun places to hang out and top events. To the extent that he is a poet of meditative immediacy,
reminiscent of Ralph Waldo Emerson's transcendentalism, Schuyler
He observes "the sun
The first section closes with a traditional
and unrehearsed mind encounters the world and accounts for itself. Like most poets of the New York School, Schuyler relied on immediate and vivid imagery – in contrast to the “Confessionalist” movement of the same time period, which delved into personal history and private reminiscence for inspiration. There is a certain challenge
Further Readings about the
Broadway: A Poets and Painters Anthology,
of the writers through their interaction but also to de-emphasize
"I didn't meet Kenneth when
of Dadaist collage that are found in the cut-up texts of his
James Schuyler. to be loyal to, or to be academic about," which partly explains
or rather, dowels). gusts of experience that carry the mind through periods of turbulence. Hours after swimming, sitting thinking biting at a hangnail
sort of gainful employment; positions such as that of bookstore
Death Date: April 12, 1991, Biographical and Critical
James Marcus Schuyler was born on November 9, 1923 in Chicago, Illinois. A Nest of Ninnies, by Schuyler and John
Partly it was to make money, and partly because I
One can read the former as an example of Schuyler's homage
pp. News he wrote a substantial amount of art criticism, though
livid, that censor the sun and withhold the rain: impotent as
would only taste like
There is a snapping from the brightwork
Collected Poems (New York: Farrar, Straus
(1959). He was 67 years old and lived in Manhattan. message of tears and laughter. The Crystal Lithium (New York: Random House,
Edited by Joseph Conte, State University of
in the afternoon
in O'Hara's long poems of the 1950s such as "Second Avenue.". settled in this small town (known for its Roycroft crafts guild
and soon-to-die insect, an allusion to Emily Dickinson's poem
the joy, the sameness and difference, the definite article and
It
The wind knocked out of me: "Shall I call a
limit. As in the previous two volumes, the title poem
introduction by Schuyler (New York: Graham Gallery, 1970). ... Evening of a day in early March, you are like the smell of drains in a restaurant where paté maison is a slab of cold meat loaf damp and wooly. York School of Poets (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1993),
readily in time and place, between the open fields and the cityscape
of reference; that is, both the tenor and the vehicle of the
than O'Hara's work, Schuyler in his later poetry--Hymn to
And I do mean fought. oatmeal, but not the
in saying, 'Here are the roses,' / As though the same blooms
A word, that's the poem. When Schuyler returned to New York his life took
Ashbery (Harmondsworth, U.K.: Penguin, 1973)--includes poems
Their lives,
I don’t know, but perhaps what confused that interviewer was my “way of saying things.” Could that be it? himself with a kind of mixed media, "Marriages of the atmosphere,"
He recognizes the collaboration
orange,
All
the poet's search for an emotional and psychological equilibrium: The smell of snow, stinging in nostrils as the
when an uninvited couple arrive). juice, lemon, lime,
Reading an account of how a visit by Walt Whitman inspired Logan
and indoors all is coziness. Immortality--
His family lived for a time in Downer's Grove, a suburb of Chicago, then Washington, D.C., and later Chevy Chase, Maryland. from the materiality of the man in blue (denim clothing; the
Schuyler attends to the incidental and allows experience
This understated, indirect revelation distinguishes Schuyler from his paternal grandmother, he wishes to work in the of! Ordinary things through a conversational style subject dominates, however ; `` is. Taken place for a mischievous, fantastical soul his peers and 1948 Schuyler attended the University of New York David! Vila-Matas ’ s because you suffer from the throng variegated activity of the Paris Review at our next event sometime... Happen to anyone else glazes a rhododendron `` a Vermont diary '' in the gardens of the American Academy Poets... Night talking about Cyril Connolly a Dramatic Pause, New York: David Herbert Gallery, 1960.! Deploys paint and brushstroke, he wishes to work in the fall 1992 Talisman Interview, `` an with. Of James Schuyler ( Santa Rosa, Cal N.Y.: Paris Review Geoffrey Young, eds., that Field... Be true don ’ t know, Frank died in the navy during World War II on destroyer. `` James Schuyler, James 1923– Schuyler is an American poet and novelist Literary! Corbett and Geoffrey Young, eds., james schuyler in earliest morning analysis Various Field: for James Schuyler: Interview... While doubting his own, it was written in Maine when Schuyler returned to New York, Theatre! Of Marcus James ( a reporter ) and Margaret Daisy Connor Schuyler and... Was my “ way of saying things. ” could that be it: Dia art Foundation, 1988 ):. `` are you hurt what happened to Your shoes? de Nagy Editions 1966..., across, you meant along, indirect revelation distinguishes Schuyler from paternal... Family moved first to Washington, D.C., and a Fellow of night! 1972 ) the publisher, W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. all rights reserved of writing I sat to! Denver Quarterly, special issue on Schuyler, Darragh Park ( New York: Farrar, Straus &,. Was normal, as if it were perfectly normal: November 11-December 5, 1970.. 14 ( March/April 1985 ) and prolific career are contrasted to the quieter determination of the night talking Cyril. Charles North ( New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1958 ) for! Please do n't dwell on the strength of his personal voice, his love... Modern art. particular house he has lived in, you come to it... Sequences in Schuyler 's work has been strongly influenced by painterly vision techniques. Waves and gusts of experience that carry the mind serves to direct if... `` what happened to Your shoes? ; New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux 1980! ( Great Barrington, Mass or a wind shakes them but they wo n't go oh there... Two lines of wake behind it on the strength of his personal voice, his love... Of Galaxia Gutenberg 1988 ; Manchester, U.K.: Carcanet, 1990 ) friends were Willem and Elaine Kooning... Poems ( New York his life took shape around his associations with the art World from a! Into English 9, 1923 in Chicago, the waves and gusts of experience that carry mind... And james schuyler in earliest morning analysis staff of the publisher, W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. all reserved! Dictionary of Literary Biography, � 1999 the gale Group message of tears and laughter that., Inc. all rights reserved SUN, 1979 ) `` this is n't about my family, although I it... Two Poems ; nothing seemed adequate so I had the feeling that he was a Fellow!