Just The Thing: Selected Letters Of James Schuyler

Edited by William Corbett

“An extraordinarily rich and compelling book, a wonder. James Schuyler's letters provide the perfect companion to his brilliant and memorable poems—hilarious, self-deprecating, insightful and moving, ever so moving. 'I love being in love with you, it makes even unhappiness seem no bigger than a pin, even at the times when I wish violently that I could give my heart to science and be rid of it.'”
—Paul Auster

6 x 9, 480 pages, Paperback, $21.95, ISBN 1-885586-30-2

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About the Author

James Schuyler, recipient of the 1981 Pulitzer prize for Poetry belonged to the first generation of New York School Poets along with John O’Hara, John Ashbery, Kenneth Koch, and Barbara Guest. His Collected poems was published by Farrar Straus & Giroux.

William Corbett, Editor of both Just the Thing, Selected letters of James Schuyler and The Letters of James Schuyler to Frank O’Hara is a poet, memoirist and art critic. He teaches in the program of Writing and Humanistic Studies at MIT.

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