This collection of poetry showcases the unique talent of James Schuyler and highlights the writing that won him a Pulitzer Prize. "Schuyler's subject is his life, and his poems often read like elegant journal entries." - Publishers Weekly
This collection showcases James Schuyler's unique poetic voice, highlighting his significance within the New York School alongside contemporaries like John Ashbery and Frank O'Hara. His work is characterized by influences from art and music, featuring dynamic shifts in sound, shape, and color that create a collage-like effect. Schuyler's innovative style invites comparisons to literary giants such as Whitman and Rimbaud, affirming his place as a vital figure in late twentieth-century poetry.
Featuring a selection of unpublished poems, this collection showcases the unique voice of a prominent twentieth-century poet. The work delves into themes of identity, emotion, and the human experience, reflecting the author's distinctive style and perspective. Readers can expect a rich exploration of language and imagery that highlights the poet's innovative approach to verse, offering fresh insights into their creative legacy. This anthology is a significant addition for poetry enthusiasts and those interested in the evolution of modern poetry.
James Schuyler's utterly original What's for Dinner? features a cast of characters who appear to have escaped from a Norman Rockwell painting to run amok. In tones that are variously droll, deadpan, and lyrical, Schuyler tells a story that revolves around three small-town American households. The Delehanteys are an old-fashioned Catholic family whose twin teenage boys are getting completely out of hand, no matter that their father is hardly one to spare the rod. Childless Norris and Lottie Taylor have been happily married for years, even as Lottie has been slowly drinking herself to death. Mag, a recent widow, is on the prowl for love. Retreating to an institution to dry out, Lottie finds herself caught up in a curious comedy of group therapy manners. At the same time, however, she begins an ascent from the depths of despair—illuminated with the odd grace and humor that readers of Schuyler's masterful poetry know so well—to a new understanding, that will turn her into an improbable redeemer within an unlikely world.What's for Dinner? is among the most delightful and unusual works of American literature. Charming and dark, off-kilter but pedestrian, mercurial yet matter-of-fact, Schuyler's novel is an alluring invention that captures both the fragility and the tenacity of ordinary life.
One of the finest American poets of the second half of the twentieth century, James Schuyler was at the same time a remarkable novelist. Alfred and Guinevere are two children who have been sent by their parents to spend the summer at their grandmother's house in the country. There they puzzle over their parents' absence and their relatives' habits, play games and pranks, make friends and fall out with them, spat and make up. Schuyler has a pitch-perfect ear for the children's voices, and the story, told entirely through snatches of dialogue and passages from Guinevere's diary, is a tour de force of comic and poetic invention. The reader discovers that beneath the book's apparently guileless surface lies a very sophisticated awareness of the complicated ways in which words work to define the often perilous boundaries between fantasy and reality, innocence and knowledge.
FIDE Master James Schuyler studies his favourite Black opening, the Dark Knight System. He presents a repertoire for Black and tells you everything you need to know about playing 1...Nc6.
Schuyler covers all phases of the game and discusses other vital subjects such as harassment, material imbalance, time management, surprise moves, unusual ideas, provocative play, maneuvers and recovering from bad positions.
'Trzy poematy' zbierają najważniejsze, a zarazem słynne, dłuższe utwory Jamesa Schuylera: 'Hymn do życia', 'Poranek poematu' i 'Parę dni'. Autor jest jednym z czterech klasyków nowoczesnego poetyckiego brydża szeroko dziś cenionej 'nowojorskiej szkoły poezji' – najbardziej z nich horacjański i głęboko epikurejski (mimo niezliczonych dolegliwości i utrapień). Autorami przekładów są: Marcin Sendecki, Andrzej Sosnowski, Bohdan Zadura.