Cultural Writing. Letters. James Schuyler, recipient of the 1981 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry for The Morning of the Poem, is among the first generation of New York School poets. Schuyler is the perfect letter writer, one who seeks to amuse and inform, who has a great sense of humor, lively and original opinions, an ear for gossip and the tart tongue to properly serve it, and who is a memorable phrase maker. There are numerous letters to his great correspondents John Ashbery and the painter/writer Joe Brainard and to Fairfield Porter, Frank O'Hara, John Button, Barbara Guest, Harry Mathews, Ron Padgett, Kenward Elmslie, Anne Dunn, Darragh Park, and a who's-who of poets and artists central to the downtown New York art scene from the early 1950s until his death in 1991. "An extraordinarily rich and compelling book, a wonder"--Paul Auster.
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