Despite, or perhaps because of, all its richness and vitality, this day is, in the end just “like any other.” The poem’s conclusion turns the everyday – and everydayness – into its central theme and subject, as well as an object of representation. Poetry?
(Just the Thing 240). at five p.m. on the day before March first. He was born in Chicago, Illinois and spent his teen years in East Aurora, …
He uncouples his sentences so that the electric spark must jump from noun to noun, and from event to event, no matter how disparate or seemingly unrelated. Add to this a private reading of the physical world imprinted on his nervous system.
Schuyler, Just the Thing: Selected Letters of James Schuyler 1951–1991, ed. You can read the rest of my chapter on Schuyler and the everyday in my book, which you can find here and here. The sun, I can't see making a bit of pink I can't quite see in the blue. and the rocking-horse motion of her breasts. Pulitzer Prize winning poet James Schuyler was a central member of the New York School. By doing so, Schuyler enacts the movement Emerson calls for in “The American Scholar” – he turns away from the remote and the antique, and toward the common, the low, and the familiar. He is the author of several collections of poetry, including Archeophonics (2016), which was a finalist for the National Book Award.
“February” is not a tranquil Romantic recollection; it is active observation that creates the effect of recollection. A palpable sense of irreality is everywhere present in it; his poems combine the attention of an ethnographic account with the charm of a great dinner guest. Schuyler describes a sudden decision to reject the “laborious and flat” exercise he had been working on, a poem in a traditional, inherited form that took for its subject an exotic location and a masterpiece of Western art (traits, clichés even, associated with the dominant, New Critical mode of mid-century verse). For example, he carefully recreates the way the pink of the tulips on the window-sill echoes the colors of the setting sun in the sky and building facades and vividly etches the gritty details of the urban scene. In “February,” James Schuyler depicts a struggle central to his poetics: the struggle between language and perception, between what language makes of what is there, and what is really there. out of the blue looking pink in the light. He has served as poetry editor for The Nation, and his honors include the Peter I.B. One has the sense of events and words being brought together out of necessity, to conduct a vision, giving the apparent randomness of living a sense of coherence and even inevitability.
Back to ALL Poetry of America Readings and Commentary. Donate Legal | His honors include fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the American Academy of Poets, as well as the Longview Foundation Award and a Frank O’Hara Prize for Poetry. The gaps between his lines give us the experience of the passage of time, a verbal time-lapse photography, kind of. Peter Gizzi (1959- ) was born in Alma, Michigan. James Schuyler, "February" from Collected Poems. I’ve decided to post an excerpt from my recent book, Attention Equals Life, which discusses “February” in some detail. He also wrote several plays, novels, and art critiques. Thursday, February 28, 2019 February by James Schuyler February A chimney, breathing a little smoke. We see beauty and power twinned, the UN building on big evenings, and the green leaves of the tulips on my desk like grass light on flesh. Two dog-size lions face each other
(“February” was also one of only four poems by Schuyler included in The New American Poetry, the epochal 1960 anthology edited by Donald Allen, which ensured that it would become an early “greatest hit” for the poet). News, links, resources, and commentary on poets and artists of the New York School, by Andrew Epstein. Ah, beautiful, Andrew.
Fairfield Porter, “John Ashbery and James Schuyler Writing ‘Nest of Ninnies'” (1967), It’s February 28, and that means it’s a good day to read and think about one of my favorite James Schuyler poems, “February,” which takes place “on the day before March first.”. He studied at New York University, Brown University, and the State University of New York at Buffalo. Jobs | (This excerpt can be found on pages 75 to 79 of Attention Equals Life): The poet and critic Douglas Crase, a friend of Schuyler’s, once hinted at the seriousness of Schuyler’s investment in the quotidian when he recalled that “Jimmy was our own moralist of the everyday. ( Log Out / 3.
Schuyler exchanges a syntax of memory and judgment for a syntax of simultaneity. Post was not sent - check your email addresses!
and the rocking-horse motion of her breasts. The “violet sea” verges on the violent. He currently teaches in the MFA Program for Poets and Writers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Then, in the middle of the poem, the speaker’s jaw drops open at the wonderful, accidental congruence of this contingent everyday moment: “I can’t get over / how it all works in together / like a woman who just came to her window / and stands there filling it / jogging a baby in her arms” (Collected 5). For more on Schuyler’s “February,” check out this 2015 podcast discussion of the poem at PoemTalk (featuring Al Filreis, Julia Bloch, Erica Kaufman, and Bernadette Mayer). Rather than dwelling, or concluding the poem, on this moment of insight or revelation, as many other poets might have done, the poem ends: It’s getting grayer and gold and chilly.
( Log Out / Thank you for the poem and the excerpt from your book. It’s the shape of the tulip.
4. The everyday? It’s the water in the drinking glass the tulips are in. The Shortest and Sweetest of Songs by George MacDo... We shall meet again, in Petersburg by Osip Mandelstam. Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. He didn’t so much teach as exemplify, which is the way it should be, since even the wisest lessons sound like drivel.” What Schuyler exemplifies, the moral stance his poetry models, is how one can—as well as why one should—lead a life buoyed by an attentiveness to daily life. And Now Upon My Head the Crown by Phillip B. Williams. Heaven Is a Heavy House: Axe, Drawknife, Augur, Cr... U-District Incident Report by Heather McHugh, Duplex (I Begin with Love) by Jericho Brown.
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