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James Marcus Schuyler (November 9, &#; April 12, ) was an American poet.

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His awards include the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his collection The Morning of the Poem. He was a central figure in the New York School and is often associated with fellow New York School poets John Ashbery, Frank O'Hara, Kenneth Koch, and Barbara Guest.

Life and death

James Marcus Schuyler was the son of Marcus Schuyler (a reporter) and Margaret Daisy Connor Schuyler.

Born in Chicago, he spent his teen years in East Aurora, New York.^[1] After graduating high school, Schuyler attended Bethany College in West Virginia from to , though he was not a very successful student; in a later interview, he recalled, "I just played bridge all the time."^[2]

Schuyler moved to New York City in the late s where he worked for NBC and first befriended W.

H. Auden. In , he moved to Ischia, Italy, where he lived in Auden's rented apartment and worked as his secretary. Between and , Schuyler attended the University of Florence.^[2]

After returning to the United States and settling in New York City, he roomed with John Ashbery and Frank O'Hara.

In April , at age sixty-seven, Schuyler died in Manhattan following a stroke.

His ashes were interred at the Little Portion Friary (Episcopal), Mt. Sinai, Long Island, New York.

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Personal life

Schuyler was not known for revealing much about his personal life. It is known that he was gay, and was partners with William Aalto and John Button. Schuyler was manic depressive,^[3] underwent several years of psychoanalysis and withstood many traumatic experiences. One of these includes a "near death experience" in a fire which he caused by smoking in bed.^[4]

In a spring special issue of the Denver Quarterly that was written by Barbara Guest in devotion to Schuyler's work, Guest refers to Schuyler as an "intimist," saying:

for me Jimmy is the Vuillard of us, he withholds his secret, the secret thing until the moment appears to reveal it.

We wait and wait for the name of a flower while we praise the careful cultivation.

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Inspiration and style

Schuyler's move to Italy, as Auden's typist, was accompanied by his intention of writing. In he was said to have recalled "that he found Auden's elaborate formalism 'inhibiting'." This was likely an influence to his own "conversational style and proselike line".^[2]

While living in New York, Schuyler found inspiration in the art world.

From to , he was a "curator of circulating exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art". He was also an editorial associate and critic for Art News. While working as an editorial associate, Schuyler wrote criticism about a large amount of art. In an interview that was published in spring , he said, "I did learn an awful lot during those years, and then went on in the 60s writing occasional articles about specific artists and their specific strategies.

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Partly it was to make money, and partly because I wanted to write about painting, about art." His time as an art critic, then, became a major inspiration to his work.^[2]

From to Schuyler lived with Fairfield Porter and his family in Southampton, Long Island. Porter became an influence for Schuyler as well, and he dedicated his first major collection, Freely Espousing, to Anne and Fairfield Porter.^[2]

Schuyler is noted for his ability to take things that are "normal" and bring out their greatness.

He takes a look at things that many people may not see, or care to take note of, such as individual raindrops. He evaluates the ordinary and the way it works in relation to other things: "It's the water in the drinking glass the tulips are in./ It's a day like any other."^[4]

Schuyler was responsible for writing Frank O'Hara's elegy, "Buried at Springs".

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Schuyler recalls Ralph Waldo Emerson'stranscendentalism, and uses nature to express himself in the elegy. Schuyler also has several works that are about, or that reference lists.^[4]

In his Diary, Schuyler says that he is "more of a reader than a writer", and "everything happens as I write".^[4]

Awards

Schuyler received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his collection The Morning of the Poem.

He also coauthored a novel, A Nest of Ninnies, with John Ashbery in Schuyler also received the Longview Foundation Award in , and the Frank O'Hara Prize for Poetry in for Freely Espousing.^[2]

Schuyler was a Guggenheim Fellow, a fellow of the American Academy of Poets,^[5] and a recipient of the Whiting Award.

His poem The Morning of the Poem is considered to be among the best long poems of the postmodern era.

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Published works

Numerous works by Schuyler, including books, plays, recordings, and other pieces have been published throughout the years. The following is a list of items that he authored.^[2]

Books

• Alfred and Guinevere (New York: Harcourt, Brace, ).
• Salute (New York: Tiber Press, ).
• May 24 or So (New York: Tibor de Nagy Editions, ).
• Freely Espousing (Garden City, N.Y.: Paris Review Editions/Doubleday, ; New York: SUN, ).
• A Nest of Ninnies, by Schuyler and John Ashbery (New York: Dutton, ; Manchester, UK: Carcanet, ).
• The Crystal Lithium (New York: Random House, ).
• A Sun Cab (New York: Adventures in Poetry, ).
• Hymn to Life (New York: Random House, ).
• The Fireproof Floors of Witley Court; English Songs and Dances (Newark & West Burke, Vt.: Janus Press, ).
• Song (Syracuse, N.Y.: Kermani Press, ).
• The Home Book: Prose and Poems, –, edited by Trevor Winkfield (Calais, Vt.: Z Press, ).
• What's For Dinner? (Santa Barbara, Cal.: Black Sparrow Press, ).
• The Morning of the Poem (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, ).
• Collabs, by Schuyler and Helena Hughes (New York: Misty Terrace Press, ).
• Early in '71 (Berkeley, Cal.: The Figures, ).
• A Few Days (New York: Random House, ).
• For Joe Brainard (New York: Dia Art Foundation, ).
• Selected Poems (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, ; Manchester, UK: Carcanet, ).
• Collected Poems (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, ).
• Two Journals: James Schuyler, Darragh Park, by Schuyler and Darragh Park (New York: Tibor de Nagy, ).
• Diary of James Schuyler (Santa Rosa, Cal.: Black Sparrow Press, ).
• Last Poems (London: Slow Dancer Press, ).
• Just the Thing: Selected Letters of James Schuyler, –, edited by William Corbett (New York: Turtle Point Press, ).
• The Letters of James Schuyler to Frank O'Hara, edited by William Corbett (New York: Turtle Point Press, ).
• Other Flowers: Uncollected Poems, edited by James Meetze and Simon Pettet (New York, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, ).

Play productions

• Presenting Jane, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Poet's Theatre,
• Shopping and Waiting: A Dramatic Pause, New York, American Theatre for Poets,
• Unpacking the Black Trunk, by Schuyler and Kenward Elmslie, New York, American Theatre for Poets,
• The Wednesday Club, by Schuyler and Elmslie, New York, American Theatre for Poets,

Recording

• Hymn to Life & Other Poems, Watershed Intermedia,

Other

• "Poet and Painter Overture", in The New American Poetry, edited by Donald M.

  Allen (New York: Evergreen-Grove, ), pp.&#;–

• Appearance and Reality: October Third to Thirty-first, , introduction by Schuyler (New York: David Herbert Gallery, ).
• Robert Dash: November 11 – December 5, , introduction by Schuyler (New York: Graham Gallery, ).
• Penguin Modern Poets 24, edited by John Ashbery (Harmondsworth, UK: Penguin, ) – includes poems by Schuyler.
• Broadway: A Poets and Painters Anthology, edited by Schuyler and Charles North (New York: Swollen Magpie Press, ).
• Broadway 2: A Poets and Painters Anthology, edited by Schuyler and North (Brooklyn, N.Y.: Hanging Loose Press, ).
• Four by Two magazine: in the international quarterly Four by Two magazine, in collaboration with Raymond Foye, ran a series of previously unpublished drafts of Schuyler’s poems, some of them in uncorrected typescript.

Papers

The major collection of Schuyler's papers, covering the years from to , is held in the Mandeville Department of Special Collections at the University of California, San Diego.

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