Other Flowers: Uncollected Poems - James Schuyler

\nA COLLECTION OF UNPUBLISHED POEMS FROM ONE OF THE MOST DISTINCTIVE POETIC VOICES OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY \n \nof an evening real as paint on canvas. \nThe kind that makes me ache to have the gift \nfor dusting off clichés: \nnot, make it new, but, see it, hear it, freshly. \nThe context (good morrow, haven't we met in this context \n before?) \nin which, squelch, a brush lifted a load \nof pigment from the thick glass palette, and, concentrated, \nas though he saw neither the work in hand nor the subject, \nthe painter began. \n --from A Blue Shadow Painting \n \nOther Flowers brings together 165 unseen poems from James Schuyler, one of the twentieth century's most acclaimed writers. This carefully arranged edition presents a broad range of Schuyler's work, spanning from the early 1950s until his death in 1991. These poems exhibit Schuyler's 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 Schuyler's status as one of the most important figures in contemporary poetics.\n