A White City
JAMES SCHUYLER
James Schuyler's career began as a typist and secretary for W.H Auden. At 23, he moved with Auden to the Gulf of Naples, attending The University of Florence. On return to America, he lived with John Ashberry and Frank O’Hara. Schuyler was an observer, a figure on the edge of important scenes for 20 years. Transcendental in nature, he was quiet and intimate, saying only the right thing at the right time and nothing more. His poems then, unsurprisingly, are revelatory in their magnification. He sees the small and mundane and finds the beauty. In only his observations, he reveals something the rest of us missed.