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James Schuyler Poet

  • Gender: Male
  • Citizenship: United States
  • Born: Nov 9, 1923
  • Died: Apr 12, 1991

James Marcus Schuyler was an American poet whose awards include the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his 1980 collection The Morning of the Poem. He was a central figure in the New York School and is often associated with fellow New York School poets John Ashbery, Frank O'Hara, Kenneth Koch, and Barbara Guest.

Well, if this is poetry, I'm certainly never going to write any myself. poetry

However, if a poem can be reduced to a prose sentence, there can't be much to it. poetry

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