Selected Poems

by Schuyler, James; Ashbery, John

• ISBN13: 9780374530891
• ISBN10: 0374530890
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-05-15
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Summary

InSelected 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. James Schuyler (1923-91) received the Pulitzer Prize for poetry forThe Morning of the Poemin 1981. InSelected 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. "Selected Poemsincludes over 100 poems, spanning the breadth of his distinguished career as a writer . . . Schuyler manages to be simultaneously particular and expansive, zooming in on the smallest detail and panning the big picture at the same time . . . His generous spirit and quirky humor are apparent throughout this collection."--Grace Bauer, formerly with New Orleans Public Library,Library Journal "Schuyler'sSelected Poemsincludes over 100 poems, spanning the breadth of his distinguished career as a writer. At his best, Schuyler manages to be simultaneously particular and expansive, zooming in on the smallest detail and panning the big picture at the same time. Though his discursiveness may not be to every reader's taste, his is a unique voice. Not many of his contemporaries are attempting 48-page poems, as Schuyler does in the 'Morning of the Poem.' His generous spirit and quirky humor are apparent throughout this collection."--Grace Bauer, formerly with New Orleans Public Library,Library Journal

Author Biography

James Schuyler (1923–91) received the Pulitzer Prize for poetry for The Morning of the Poem in 1981.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. xi
From Freely Espousing [1969]
Salute	p. 3
Freely Espousing	p. 4
February	p. 6
A Reunion	p. 8
"The Elizabethans Called It Dying"	p. 9
Faberge	p. 10
A White City	p. 11
December	p. 12
A Man in Blue	p. 13
Sestina	p. 15
An Almanac	p. 17
Hudson Ferry	p. 18
April and Its Forsythia	p. 20
Roof Garden	p. 21
May 24th or so	p. 22
Today	p. 23
Sorting, wrapping, packing, stuffing	p. 25
Seeking	p. 27
Milk	p. 30
Going	p. 31
The Master of the Golden Glow	p. 32
Stun	p. 34
Poem (How about an oak leaf)	p. 35
Now and then	p. 36
Buried at Springs	p. 41
From the Home Book: Prose and Poems, 1951-1970 [1977]
Poem (I do not always understand what you say.)	p. 45
Jelly Jelly	p. 46
A Head	p. 47
From the Crystal Lithium [1972]
Empathy and New Year	p. 51
In January	p. 55
In Earliest Morning	p. 56
An East Window on Elizabeth Street	p. 58
Scarlet Tanager	p. 59
Light Blue Above	p. 61
The Edge in the Morning	p. 62
"Used Handkerchiefs 5[cent]"	p. 64
Light from Canada	p. 65
Gulls	p. 66
Closed Gentian Distances	p. 67
September	p. 68
Evening Wind	p. 69
Slowly	p. 70
A Gray Thought	p. 71
Verge	p. 72
A Stone Knife	p. 74
The Crystal Lithium	p. 76
Eyes	p. 81
The Night	p. 83
Letter to a Friend: Who Is Nancy Daum?	p. 85
We Are Leaves	p. 91
Await	p. 94
Steaming Ties	p. 96
Watching You	p. 98
Letter Poem #3	p. 100
From Hymn to Life [1974]
Beautiful Funerals	p. 103
Our Father	p. 108
Poem (This beauty that I see)	p. 111
To Frank O'Hara	p. 112
Unlike Joubert	p. 114
Eyes at the Window	p. 115
Shimmer	p. 117
Greenwich Avenue	p. 118
Just Before Fall	p. 119
Buttered Greens	p. 121
In Wiry Winter	p. 126
So Good	p. 128
October	p. 130
A blue towel	p. 131
The Bluet	p. 134
Standing and Watching	p. 135
The Green Door	p. 136
The Day	p. 137
The Walk	p. 139
Awoke	p. 142
Afterward	p. 143
Hymn to Life	p. 145
From the Morning of the Poem [1980]
This Dark Apartment	p. 161
June 30, 1974	p. 163
Korean Mums	p. 166
Song (The light lies layered in the leaves.)	p. 168
Wystan Auden	p. 169
Dining Out with Doug and Frank	p. 171
The Payne Whitney Poems: Trip	p. 179
We Walk	p. 179
Arches	p. 180
Linen	p. 180
Heather and Calendulas	p. 181
Back	p. 181
Blizzard	p. 182
February 13, 1975	p. 183
Sleep	p. 183
Pastime	p. 184
What	p. 184
The Morning of the Poem	p. 186
From A Few Days [1985]
A Few Days	p. 237
The Snowdrop	p. 266
This Notebook	p. 267
Velvet Roses	p. 268
At Darragh's I	p. 269
Amy Lowell Thoughts	p. 271
Beaded Balustrade	p. 272
People who see bubbles rise	p. 273
En Route to Southampton	p. 275
Faure's Second Piano Quartet	p. 276
Red Brick and Brown Stone	p. 277
What Ails My Fern?	p. 279
Procession	p. 281
Tom	p. 282
Suddenly	p. 286
Index of Titles	p. 287
Index of first Lines	p. 291
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