James Schuyler

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James Marcus Schuyler (born November 9, 1923 in Chicago , Illinois , † April 12, 1991 in Manhattan , New York City , New York ) was an American poet who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1981 for his book of poetry The Morning of the Poem received for poetry .

Life

Schuyler, son of reporter Marcus James Schuyler and his wife Margaret Daisy Connor Schuyler, studied at Bethany College between 1941 and 1943 and then served in the US Navy on a destroyer in the Atlantic Ocean from 1943 to 1947 . After his return he settled in New York City and worked between 1955 and 1961 as curator of the temporary exhibitions of the local Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). He belonged to the first generation alongside John Ashbery , Kenneth Koch , Frank O'Hara and Barbara Guest of the New York School of Poets and received a Guggenheim scholarship . 1958 appeared with Alfred and Guinevere his first book and was one of the authors who were published in the 1960 edited by Donald Allen anthology The New American Poetry 1945-1960 . In 1972 he became a Fellow of the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), a state foundation established in 1965 as part of the Great Society for the advancement of the arts and culture, based in Washington, DC

Schuyler received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1981 for his volume of poetry The Morning of the Poem , published in 1980 . Schuyler died on April 12, 1991 of complications from a stroke . In 1997 the novel A Nest of Ninnies , co-authored with John Ashbery, was published posthumously . The collected poems, which were also published postu, were awarded the Lambda Literary Award in 1994.

Publications

  • Alfred and Guinevere , 1958
  • Salute , 1960
  • May 24th or Sun , 1966
  • Freely Espousing , 1969
  • A Sun Cab , 1972
  • The Crystal Lithium , 1972
  • Hymn to Life , 1974
  • Song , 1976
  • The Firepoof Floors of Whitley Court, English Songs and Dances , 1976
  • The Home Book, Prose and Poems , 1977
  • The Morning of the Poem , 1980
  • A Few Days , 1985
  • Collected Poems , posthumously, 1993
  • A Nest of Ninnies , co-author John Ashbery, posthumously 1997

Background literature

  • Barbara Honrath: The New York poets and the fine arts , dissertation University of Bonn, Verlag Königshausen and Neumann, Würzburg 1994, ISBN 978-3-88479-872-0
  • Nathan Kernan: The diary of James Schuyler , Black Sparrow Press, Santa Rosa 1997, ISBN 1-5742-3025-5

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Winners
personal data
SURNAME Schuyler, James
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schuyler, James Marcus (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American poet
DATE OF BIRTH November 9, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Chicago , Illinois
DATE OF DEATH April 12, 1991
Place of death Manhattan , New York City , New York