He was born in Chicago, Illinois and spent his teen years in East Aurora, New York, before attending Bethany College in West Virginia. The tendency of mood to totalize and bring all objects into its orbit sets up the second section of “Buried at Springs” as an answer to the atomizing metaphysical terror that engulfs the first. Pulitzer Prize winning poet James Schuyler was a central member of the New York School. Please try again. You could argue, in fact, that he cuts his losses down to his pleasures’ size by treating them both somewhat wistfully. A bag (Tunisian) on which “SOUVENIR” is written. The writer who emerges here, as Kaufmann writes, is a skilled stylist; a radical collagist; a grand celebrator of small failure; as much a meditative poet as a descriptive one; our finest watercolorist of mood and a version of Benjamin’s storyteller who “bathes us in a self-reflecting death, polite yet radical.”. While we need to be good modernists if we are going to render the banal alien enough to see, estrangement is only the first step in the larger project of questioning. The term “pastoral” gets dropped in Schuyler criticism rather easily, even though we might want to be careful. Auden’s secretary. He wrote three novels, including one with John Ashbery. To look at it this way is to remember that mood is not merely a subjective projection onto the world. The brilliance of the figure lies in its quick accumulation of anomalous specificity. And trees inskimpy flower bud suggestthe uses of paint thinner, sofine the net they cast uponthe wind. 9. Most of the cake-boxes are in parallelpiped form (tarts? There was an error retrieving your Wish Lists. 4. He was born in Chicago, Illinois and spent his teen years in East Aurora, New York, before attending Bethany College in West Virginia. For all Schuyler’s good nature, though, the punctual is not without its terrors. David Kaufmann has curated this feature on James Schuyler, which includes essays, appreciations, and poems by Bill Berkson, Ken Bolton, Maude Emerson, Marit MacArthur, and several others. Marvelous sunsets might take place every day if you care to look, but this marvelous sunset, with its glorious array of details is a single and singular event, soon to dissolve into its many constituent parts. It can recognize it only in moods of melancholy, resignation, or genial anticipation. He also wrote several plays, novels, and art critiques. The woods are brown. Coincidence is not enough. This shopping feature will continue to load items when the Enter key is pressed. We grasp it through mood. “An Attempt” is just a propaedeutic to further work. To quote Schuyler, Porter is consumed by the immediate. It might not be too much of a stretch to say that this disconnect between ethics and politics, the personal and the collective, might well be one of the truest aspects of Schuyler’s poetry because he presses up against it so hard. The poem’s observations begin with sound, move to sight as the focus broadens, and then come back to the framing of sound by silence. Perec achieves a kind of shiny, uncomprehending empiricism, a paratactic string of unrelated events: Pigeons on the plaza. Those teeth, so keen. Schuyler is one of our greatest poets of mood as well as one of our most attentive describers of objects because mood for him (as for Emerson, Kierkegaard, Heidegger, and Benjamin) is disclosive. Almost forty pages into “The Morning of the Poem,” Schuyler provides a homely inventory of his breakfast and his poem: Before dawn I woke and made my oatmeal, orange juice and Coffee and thought about how this poem seems mostly about what I’ve        lost: the one who mattered most, my best friend, Paul (Who mattered least) the Island, the California wildflower paper,        the this, the that, Whippoorwill, buried friends, And the things I only write between the lines.

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