Touche.

While I don't think that's a great Schuyler poem, I'll give you props for finding it. I remember that one, but didn't remember the word "azure" in it at all.

You know, I think Schuyler was really much more forgetive in his poetry...he could write these really straightforward poems in the oh, maybe Russian mold...and then he could be quite innovative structurally...people tend to think of him as a great nature poet, or another urbane poet apres his mentor (and former employer)Auden, or think of him as so many things...but if you put him next to Frank O'Hara, Schuyler is surprisingly the more innovative poet (despite the quirky asymptotes O'Hara occasionally approached).

I'd put my mental money on him and Guest as the real innovators in that whole school (soi-disant). Guest's elegy for him shows as much recognition.

Of course, Guest is as far ahead of him structurally as he is of O'Hara in his better works.

Frank was the real energy and perhaps center, heart, of that whole ekphrastic school, but his ocean kept getting a froth on it. He did the most you can do with confessional poetry. Sometimes he went past that, but those were the exceptions.

When I think of Guest, I think of magisterial lines like her thalassic onomatopoiea: "Rejoice in ancient nothingness." That's so Greek. I can hear the ocean and all of human existence in four words...surprised she didn't choose that as her epitaph.

Although, O'Hara's epitaph is killer-good. Can't deny that.

Messerli did a good job of anthologizing Schuyler in From the Other Side of the Century. He caught a lot of the more complex pieces. But then so did Hoover, who sort of matched on what he chose.

There are some distinctly odd Schuyler sequences, like those atavistic pieces he did near the end. What was that? Channeling?

He had the precision of a Chekhov and the control of an Akhmatova.

It's nice you quote him. He seems to be sort of vanishing, which is dumb.

But poets like that tend to make big circuits out of the loop and suddenly reappear.

We've seen this posthumous act before.

And the Guest poem I thought had "azure" did not. But I think she pulls it off somewhere lol.

But those lines are not good poetry.

This "Gotcha (Back) Biotch" moment has been a tribute to pre-breakdown Dave Lachapelle.

Some O'Hara is very good.

But there are hundreds of pages of feyness I avoid.

Mineola Prep, indeed.

Matt! Thanks for the lovely comment Milk!

-Brooklyn XO

Thanks. It's more information than I usually give out about myself.

Hi Matt..thanks for the invite. I particularly love your "about me" section of your profile.

I see, I see. Bloomington's not TERRIBLE, but then, I guess you live in New York now. :-)

Wow, no kidding! What part of Indiana?

Pleased to make your acquaintance. :-)