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Literary Imagination Advance Access published online on May 9, 2008
Literary Imagination, doi:10.1093/litimag/imn025
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James Schuyler's Poetics of Indolence

Mark Silverberg*

*Cape Breton University. E-mail: mark_silverberg@cbu.ca

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Interviewer: "Did you ever try to write poems about his [Fairfield Porter's] paintings?"
James Schuyler: "No, but I tried to write poems that were like his paintings"
I hate fussing with nature and would like the world to be
All weeds ...
So much messing about, why not leave the world alone ...1

The New York School poets are probably the group of contemporary American writers best known for their connections with the visual arts. Like his colleagues, Frank O’Hara, John Ashbery, Barbara Guest, and Kenneth Koch, James Schuyler supplemented his poetry career for many years as an art critic and curator, and worked on collaborative projects with artists such as Robert Dash and Joe Brainard. However, while the New York School poets are most often associated with Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art, Schuyler's temperament and poems inclined not towards the heat of Pollock or chill of Warhol, but towards . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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