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, havent 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 centurys most acclaimed writers. This carefully arranged edition presents a broad range of Schuylers work, spanning from the early 1950s until his death in 1991. These poems exhibit Schuylers 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 Schuylers status as one of the most important figures in contemporary poetics.
"Starred Review. Occasionally rough and half-realized, yet always alive, this book constitutes an exciting poetic discovery." - Publishers Weekly
"A treasure trove for students of the New York School poets that should appear in most university library collections." - Library Journal
"Schuyler had the knack for writing about his own experiences so carefully that hes never overbearing or self-important. His poetry, especially early on, is about the resonances of how things look, sound, and feel, at rest and in motion." - Booklist
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James Schuyler (19231991) received the Pulitzer Prize for poetry for The Morning of the Poem in 1981.
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