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Originally published in 1900.This volume from the Cornell University Library's print collections was scanned on an APT BookScan and converted to JPG 2000 format by Kirtas Technologies.All titles scanned cover to cover and pages may include marks notations and other marginalia present in the original volume. ... Read more

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Schuyler's notebook entries facing Park's drawings ... Read more

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"James Schuyler and I began writing A Nest of Ninnies purely by chance," writes John Ashbery in his new introduction to this classic of American comic fiction. "We were in a car being driven by the young cameraman, Harrison Starr, with his father as a passenger in the front seat . . . Jimmy said, 'Why don't we write a novel?' And how do we do that, I asked. 'It's easy—you write the first line,' was his reply." The result is one of the strangest and most exuberant experiments in American literary history, a verbal tour de force of suburban Americana. First published in 1969, A Nest of Ninnies is a true gem-in-the-rough, the decades-long collaborative project from two of the great poetic minds of the twentieth century. ... Read more

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Uncle Albert Says: abandon yourself to the pleasures of farce
If you love farce from Faydeau through Wodehouse through Joe Keenan (Blue Heaven, Putting on the Ritz, and the first few years of Frasier) you'll love this book. If you don't, please don't read it. I picked it up because it's by two of the '50s era New York School poets, Ashbery and Schuyler. I happen to enjoy that school of poetry, even more than I love their contemporary West Coast poets like Ginsberg, Corso, and company (and I love those too). This is the sort of delightful ego exercise on the part of the author(s) where you turn the key and let the author do the driving--at any speed he wishes. In the end, none of the characters are important, no great moral lessons are learned, what happens and where it happens are more decorative than narrative or metaphorical. You have drinks with a friend and during the course of the evening, the friend tells you this long involved story that is fascinating because he's your friend. And when the evening ends and you both go your separate ways, it was a great evening for no reason more complicated than you spent it with a great friend, who can tell some whopping good stories. Dump all that earnest book-reading you picked up in school and church and let yourself go; read this book and others like it (see Faydeau, Wodehouse, Keenan and company) as one of the top five pleasures of life. You've already abandoned yourself to numbers one and two and survived, right?

Honey I wrote a novel
This novel doesn't exactly break the sound barrier -- Auden went a little overboard in calling it a minor classic -- but is "likable enough," like Hillary Clinton, and has the unpredictability of the game it started as. Ashbery and Schuyler wrote it one sentence at a time: A. started with "Alice was tired," and it blossomed, to the extent that it did, from there. The first third is fairly choppy as a result; however, as the novel progresses it settles into its narrative arc, and the closing scenes are excellent conventional farce. (A plot summary would be inappropriate: one of the pleasures of this book is figuring out where it's trying to go.) The writing is spirited and sporadically brilliant -- both authors won Pulitzers in poetry -- but not very interesting as prose. On the whole, this book is recommended for Ashbery or Schuyler fans, connoisseurs of camp, and those with an interest in how novels are constructed. Others might find it self-indulgent.

Auden was right
This book deserves to be recognized as the "minor classic" W. H. Auden thought it was destined to become.The high camp of much of the proceedings only makes the book more profound in its investigation of the contemporary manners of negotiating affect through objects.In this it looks back to Wilde and Henry James, as it does also in its arch staging of the objectification of a mystified "Europe."Entirely fascinating, urbanely hilarious.

a good romp
Who would think that two experimental poets could write a comic novel without stylistic pretensions? There's nothing profound here, just a quick read with plenty of laughs. The title conveys the substance fairly well:Schuyler and Ashbery have created a cast of middle- to upper-class foolsfor whom they have little respect. This could, of course, be fairlytiresome ("aren't the bourgeosie so silly!"), if it weren't forthe authors' keen sense of humor. Think of this as a detailed pitch for agood Woody Allen movie, or a Firbank novel for the mid-twentieth century. ... Read more

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From 1963 to 1978 Joe Brainard (author of I Remember) created more than one hundred works of art that appropriated the classic comic strip character Nancy and sent her into an astonishing variety of spaces, all electrified and complicated by the incongruity of her presence.

In The Nancy Book, Joe Brainard's Nancy traverses high art and low, the poetic and pornographic, the surreal and the absurd. Whether inserted into hypothetical situations, dispatched on erotic adventures, or seemingly rendered by the hands of artists as varied as Leonardo da Vinci, R. Crumb, Larry Rivers, Pablo Picasso, and Willem de Kooning, Brainard's Nancy revels in as well as transcends her two-dimensionality. A beguiling balance of mischief and innocence, irreverence and wonder, spontaneity and calculation, Brainard's Nancys accumulate into a complex work of great originality and wit, equal parts surprise and subtlety.

The Nancy Book includes 78 full page reproductions in color and b/w and features collaborations with poets Bill Berkson, Ted Berrigan, Robert Creeley, Frank Lima, Frank O'Hara, Ron Padgett, and James Schuyler. The Nancy Book also includes a reminiscence by Ron Padgett as well as an original essay by Ann Lauterbach that locates, with poetic and critical acumen, the matrix of relationships that informed Brainard s work, illuminating the Nancy works in particular.

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I remember Joe Brainard
i never saw this book, but i saw a bunch of Joe's "Nancy" drawings in the old Peace Eye Booksore in the east village, which was run by Ed Sanders of the Fugs. whew, that's a long sentence eh? well, years later i attended the School of Visual Arts and Joe was one of my painting instructors. we didn't see eye to eye because he taught a figure painting class and i refused to put faces or heads on my figure studies because i said that if you put a face or head on it, it becomes a portrait, not a figure study.i liked joe. when i asked him about those Nancy cartoons in the Peace Eye he sort of shrugged and looked embarrassed and i never brought it up again. that's all i know ... Read more

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: John Ashbery, Frank O'hara, Joe Brainard, Kenneth Koch, James Schuyler, Bill Berkson, Ted Berrigan, Joseph Ceravolo, Barbara Guest, Alice Notley, Bernadette Mayer, Ron Padgett, Lunch Poems, Larry Fagin, Kenward Elmslie, Max Blagg, Sam Abrams. Excerpt:Alice Notley (born 8 November 1945) is an American poet . She was born in Bisbee, Arizona and grew up in Needles, California . She received a B.A from Barnard College in 1967 and an M.F.A. from the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa in 1969. She married poet Ted Berrigan in 1972, with whom she was active in the Chicago poetry scene and with whom she had two sons. In the early 70s she became rooted in New York 's Lower East Side , where she was an important force from 1976 through 1992. After Berrigan died in 1983, Notley raised their two sons in New York's East Village by herself for several years while continuing to develop her poetry. In 1992 she moved to Paris with her second husband, the British poet Douglas Oliver (1937-2000). She lives in Paris currently, making several trips to the United States each year to give readings and teach writing classes. Notley has earned a reputation as one of the most challenging and engaging poets at work today. Fiercely independent, she has never tried to be anything other than a poet, and all of her ancillary activities have been directed to that end. She is the author of over twenty books of poetry, and also the author of a book of essays on poets and poetry, Coming After . Alice Notley was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize , and winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Poetry. In the spring of 2001, she received an award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the Poetry Society of America 's Shelley Memorial Award . She edited and wrote a new introduction to ... ... Read more

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tributes to Schuyler, who died early in 1991 ... Read more

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Title: "Baby sweetness blew his cool again ...".(Just the Thing: Selected Letters of James Schuyler, 1951-1991)(Book Review)
Author: W.S. Di Piero
Publication: Poetry (Magazine/Journal)
Date: January 1, 2006
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 187Issue: 4Page: 307(11)

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This digital document, covering the life and work of James Marcus Schuyler, is an entry from Contemporary Authors, a reference volume published by Thompson Gale. The length of the entry is 2415 words. The page length listed above is based on a typical 300-word page. Although the exact content of each entry from this volume can vary, typical entries include the following information:

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Letters beginning: Pearl Without Price...Sweets...Bright bauble...Dear Kitten...My wounded wood dove
Frank O'Hara died in 1966, James Schuyler in 1991. Soon thereafter, William Corbett began editing the "Selected Letters of James Schuyler, 1951-1991" (paper 2004). During his 13 years of preparation, he was unable to obtain Jimmy's letters to O'Hara from the latter's executor(s). Better late than never, Frank's sister finally passed the letters to Corbett, thus the present little book (paper 2006).

Surprisingly, the letters span only 1954-1958. They are not windbags, but balloons, totaling 32. Jimmy's happiness, sweetness, and ease in writing Frank just bubbles, as if they were childish identical twins, hugging and kissing in all naturalness and trust. But as I felt about the Selected Letters, the content avoids the shadows, the revelations, the troubles, the Unvarnished Truth.

So, these letters of 1954-1958: what was happening in those years? and just before and after? I referred to Nathan Kernan's valuable detailed Chronology printed in the Diary (publ. 1997).
In late 1951, Schuyler's first mental breakdown resulted in several months of hospitalization.
In fall 1952, Jimmy became Frank's roommate in a cheap apartment on NY's East Side.
In mid 1953, Jimmy met duo-pianists Fizdale and Gold and began an extended relationship with the latter.
In August 1954, Jimmy went to Europe with the touring piano duo.
In February 1955, back in NY, Jimmy lived with Gold but spent a lot of time at Frank's apartment, though Joe LeSueur had moved in as Frank's lover. Jimmy also spent time with the Fairfield Porter family in Maine.
In 1956, Jimmy broke with Gold and returned to Frank & Joe's apartment. In July on Fire Island, Jimmy had a serious anxiety attack, and Frank helped him. In the fall, Jimmy went into analysis.
In January 1957, Frank & Joe moved, Jimmy having become a burden. Jimmy began an affair with art dealer Donald Droll. He began working at the Museum of Modern Art, where Frank had a much better job.
In 1958, Jimmy divided his time between Donald's apartment and the East Side apartment.
In latter 1959, Jimmy & Donald became just friends, and Jimmy moved out of the East Side apartment prior to demolition. He & Frank continued to socialize in NY, but less and less.
In March 1961, Jimmy was hospitalized again for a few months, and such episodes would continue.

Surely, Jimmy saved Frank's letters to him. Much better would be the present book if these letters could have been shuffled in, so these two boys could put their arms over one another's shoulders and smile through the Five Golden Years.

For this little book, Editor Corbett provides a little Introduction summarizing Jimmy's & Frank's closeness. And a little Epilogue commenting on Schuyler's elegiac poem for Frank, "Buried at Springs," and Schuyler's poem of greeting, "To Frank O'Hara," when O'Hara's Collected Poems were published (1971).

The book's front cover design is so different and sooo silly. Truncated bodies of two comic-strip first-graders pasted together, type in two poorly legible vertical strips. Better reserved for Joe Brainard's "lost" Nancy correspondence. ... Read more

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For the first time, "The New York Poets" gathers in a single volume the best work of four extraordinary poets: Frank O'Hara, John Ashbery, Kenneth Koch, and James Schuyler. By the early 1950s all four were settled in Manhattan, collaborating, competing and encouraging each other's radical experiments with language and form. Much of their work reflects their participation in the creative energies of the New York art scene, 'the floods of paint', to quote James Schuyler, 'in whose crashing surf we all scramble'. Believing that anything could be material for a poem, they transformed American poetry with their irreverent wit and daring. Mark Ford's anthology is an essential introduction to four poets whose work has influenced poetry around the world. It includes detailed background information and a substantial bibliography. ... Read more

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.This is an OCR edition with typos.Excerpt from book:CHAPTER IV.GEANl AS A COLONEL IS ASSIGNED TO COMMAND OF A BRIGADE IS APPOINTED BRIGADIER-GENEBAL, AND ASSIGNED TO COMMAND AT CAIROGrant's Enemies—as Cuts The Neutrality Knot In Kentucky—CAPTURE OF PADUCAH—THE BATTLE OF BELMONT—WHY THAT BATTLE WAS FOUGHT—THE EXPEDITION INTO KENTUCKY—PREPARATIONS TO ATTACK FORT HENRY—FALL OF FORT HENRY—PREPARATIONS TO ATTACK FORT DONELSON—CAPTURE OF FORT DONELSON—REJOICING OF TUI S PEOPLE—GRANT PROMOTED BY THE PRESIDENT TO MAJOR-GENERAL—NEW DISTRICT CREATED FOR HIM—HE GETS UNDER A CLOUD—IS RELIEVED FROM HIS DISGRACE—PREPARATIONS FOR THE BATTE OF SHILOH.Before going to Mexico, Missouri, Grant had marched with his regiment from Hannibal to Quincy, from thence to St. Joseph, and having obtained considerable knowledge by these movements, and inured his men to hardships, in coming in contact with other and greener regiments, although the youngest colonel, Grant's experience pointed him out as the fittest person to command the combined forces, and he was made acting brigadier-general. For a time his headquarters were at Mexico, and from there he marched to Pilot Knob, from thence to Ironton, thence to Jefferson City, to defend the river against the attacks of Jeff. Thompson. Grant fortified Marble Creek, and continued his military operations in Missouri until about the 23d of August, 1861, when he received his commission as brigadier-general. This commission was made August 7th, but appointed Grant to rank as brigadier from the 17th day of May, 1861. The first intimation Grant had of his appointment was through newspapers, and he knew little about it until he received hiscommission. But his promotion had not been obtained without a struggle. Hon. E. B. Washburn, who had never spoken to Grant until after the war began, had conceived a g... ... Read more

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This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process.We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more