Other Flowers: Uncollected Poems

Other Flowers: Uncollected Poems - Paperback

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Other Flowers: Uncollected Poems - Paperback

Other Flowers: Uncollected Poems - Paperback

by James Schuyler
$21.00
$21.00

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A COLLECTION OF UNPUBLISHED POEMS FROM ONE OF THE MOST DISTINCTIVE POETIC VOICES OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY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 clichés:
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,
as though he saw neither the work in hand nor the subject,
the painter began.
--from "A Blue Shadow Painting"

Other Flowers brings together 165 unseen poems from James Schuyler, one of the twentieth century's most acclaimed writers. This carefully arranged edition presents a broad range of Schuyler's work, spanning from the early 1950s until his death in 1991. These poems exhibit Schuyler's virtuosity in drawing from real life, interpersonal history, nature, and pop culture to create reverberant portraits of the everyday. To read these poems is to rediscover the fresh clarity and grandeur of even the smallest things. Other Flowers confirms Schuyler's status as one of the most important figures in contemporary poetics.
ISBN9780374532697
Author James Schuyler
PublisherFarrar, Straus and Giroux
GenreLiterature
FormatPaperback
PublishedMarch 2011
LanguageENG- English
Pages240
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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About James Schuyler

James Schuyler (1923-1991) was the recipient of the 1981 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry for The Morning of the Poem. He belonged to the first generation of New York poets, along with Kenneth Koch, John Ashbery, Frank O'Hara, and Barbara Guest. In addition to poetry, he wrote art criticism and three novels, including one with John Ashbery.

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