Well, if this is poetry, I’m certainly never going to write any myself.
James Schuyler Quotes
However, if a poem can be reduced to a prose sentence, there can't be much to it.
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| Birth: | 9th November, 1923 |
| Death: | 12th April, 1991 |
| Nationality: | American |
| Profession: | Poet |
About
James Marcus Schuyler was born in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He was an American poet. He received the 1981 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his 1980 collection The Morning of the Poem. He was the son of Marcus Schuyler and Margaret Daisy Connor Schuyler. He studied at Bethany College in West Virginia and the University of Florence. He wrote several poems include: Salute, May 24th or So, Freely Espousing, A Sun Cab, The Crystal Lithium, Hymn to Life, Song, and A Few Days. He also coauthored a novel, A Nest of Ninnies(with John Ashbery in 1969). He also received the Longview Foundation Award in 1961, the Frank O'Hara Prize for Poetry in 1969 for Freely Espousing, and Whiting Award in 1985.
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