Collected poems
By: James Schuyler
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus, Giroux
Published: 1993
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 429
ISBN-13: 9780374126186
Subjects: American poetry
Work titles: Poems
Description: The definitive edition of an outstanding contemporary poet's work, the Collected Poems gathers together all of James Schuyler's published collections, including the long-out-of-print Freely Espousing (1969), The Crystal Lithium (1972), and Hymn to Life (1974), as well as poems from The Home Book (1977) and other small-press editions. It closes with a substantial group of previously uncollected poems. This compendium allows us to see the full range of Schuyler's achievement, confirming the widely held view that his is among this century's most vital and distinctive poetic careers.
Notes: Includes index.

Lambda Literary Award, 1993
Table of contents: title: Freely Espousing; title: February; title: With Frank and George at Lexington; title: A Reunion; title: Quick, Henry, the Flit!; title: A New Yorker; title: Walter Scott; title: Greetings from the Chateau; title: Royals; title: "The Elizabethans Called It Dying"; title: March Here; title: Faberge; title: A White City; title: December; title: Ilford Rose Book; title: Rachmaninoff's Third; title: Money Musk; title: A Man in Blue; title: Sestina; title: An Almanac; title: Thinness; title: Hudson Ferry; title: Flashes; title: April and Its Forsythia; title: Roof Garden; title: May 24th or So; title: Penobscot; title: Today; title: Sorting, wrapping, packing, stuffing; title: Seeking; title: Crocus Night; title: Milk; title: Going; title: The Master of the Golden Glow; title: Stun; title: "Earth's Holocaust"; title: Poem; title: 3/23/66; title: Industrial Archaeology; title: Now and then; title: Buried at Springs; title: Salute; title: A Grave; title: Poem; title: At the Beach; title: Self-Pity Is a Kind of Lying, Too; title: A Picnic Cantata; title: Grand Duo; title: Things to Do; title: Dreams; title: Joint; title: Jelly Jelly; title: Sonnet; title: Voyage autour de mes cartes postales; title: "It's 4:30 in Cambridge".