James Schuyler's Epistolary Poetry: Things, Postcards, Ekphrasis

What is it about?

I argue that Schuyler's poetics are less about the "thing itself" than modes of mediation, representation and exchange. In these respects, painting becomes crucial, as well as the letter-poem, and the forms of collaboration and dialogue that epistolary exchange implies. These two ideas come together in the postcard: an image that dialogues with a written text which is then exchanged and shared.

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