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The diary of James Schuyler / edited by Nathan Kernan.
LIBRA - Special PS3569.C56 Z47 1997
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Schuyler, James.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Schuyler, James--Diaries.
- Schuyler, James.
- Poets, American--20th century--Diaries.
- Poets, American.
- Diaries.
- Genre:
- Diaries.
- Autobiographies.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 320 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Santa Rosa, CA : Black Sparrow Press, 1997.
- Summary:
- The search for ways to contain the evanescence, fragility and ephemeral beauty of the moment has preoccupied lyric poets from Catullus and Herrick to James Schuyler. For Schuyler, indeed, discovering and glowing in the ineffable contingency of the moment was both theme and goal. Nowhere in his work is this more true than in that marvelous celebration of the miracle of impermanence, his remarkable Diary, here made available in full for the first time.
- "The Diary", editor Nathan Kernan has noted, "is a work of art; it is, in a large sense, a poem. Stylistically it is of a piece with Schuyler's poems: it is cut from the same cloth, or is, in places, the cloth from which the poems were cut... The Diary's peculiar combination of fragment, meticulous description, literary allusion, commonplace book and remembrance is beautiful in its own right, and very much a window into the mind that wrote the poems".
- Nathan Kernan's extremely thoughtful, scrupulous and informed editing provides this long-awaited volume a scholarly care it deserves. Kernan's editorial glosses and biographical sketches on the cast of characters, placing Schuyler in a rich social context of poets, artists and friends, provide what amounts to a handy thumbnail history of the New York School.
- Notes:
- "This edition is published in paper wrappers, there are 250 hardcover trade copies..."--collophon
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy is paperback edition.
- ISBN:
- 1574230255
- 1574230263
- 1574230271
- OCLC:
- 36086866
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