James Schuyler

Rodney Phillips (University of Arizona)

The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 3.2.4: American (US) Writing and Culture: Postwar and Contemporary, 1945-present.
Vol. editors: Sofia Ahlberg (Uppsala University), Patrick Chura (University of Akron), Emory Elliott (University of California, Riverside), Dale Enggass (University of Utah), Christopher Hugh Gair (University of Glasgow), Matthew Hofer (University of New Mexico), Stephen E. Meats (Pittsburg State University), Kerry Myler (Birmingham Newman University), Justin Parks (UiT - The Arctic University of Norway), Nick Selby (University of East Anglia)

Dates

Born 9 Nov 1923
Died 12 Apr 1991
Activity 1948-1991

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Born in United States
Active in United States

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I find James (I pass from the nostalgic, personal Jimmy to the poetic and eternal James) Schuyler's poetry honest in a way that poetry rarely is. But what can I mean by honest, for a work of art? Maybe honesty is partly and impression I get from richness and smartness and inclusiveness and speed. It seems honestly true and is honestly exciting. It promotes laughing and crying. (Kenneth Koch, “James Schuyler, Very Briefly” 1990)

On November 15, 1988, a week after his 65th birthday, poet James Schuyler gave his first public reading at the Dia Foundation on Mercer Street in New York City. By all accounts, he was a sensation and was described by the novelist Vincent Virga as “Kingly, Magnificent, a true star.” Ron Padgett, in an unpublished letter to Clark Coolidge on the 19th of

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Citation: Phillips, Rodney. "James Schuyler". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 17 May 2005 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=5909, accessed 25 November 2024.]

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