The Crystal Lithium - Softcover

Schuyler, James

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0394707826 ISBN 13: 9780394707822

Publisher: Random House, 1972

Synopsis

VERY GOOD FIRST E DITION softcover, clean text, solid binding, NO remainders NOT ex-library slight shelfwear / storage-wear; WE SHIP FAST. Carefully packed and quickly sent. 201601859 Freely Espousing and The Crystal Lithium are notable for their effortless movement among poetry, painting, and music: the arts available in such profligate array to a resident of Southampton and Manhattan and the practitioners so continually on the scene account for the natural,never forced, cross-fertilization of media and community. Schuyler's work takes place within or among the performance of the artist or the musicians, sometimes relishing it, sometimes emulating it, as the act, not the "source," of the poem. More important for Schuyler than the lyrical phrase of great beauty or the pointed thought held with conviction is the movement of the poet's sensibility through sight and sound, through the material world and the mood of a moment--the true interdisciplinary nature of his craft. The separation of sound and sense, in which the woe of an allergy is divisible from the beauty of the word, is for Schuyler an "inescapable kiss." Like the artist who deploys paint and brushstroke, he wishes to work in the pure medium of sound without the bondage of reference. Still he contents himself with a kind of mixed media, "Marriages of the atmosphere," that allow him to pass from speech to evocations of shape and color: "'What is that gold-green tetrahedron down the river?'" We recommend selecting Priority Mail wherever available. (No shipping to Mexico, Brazil or Italy.)

About this edition

• Publisher: Random House
• Publication date: 1972
• ISBN 10: 0394707826
• ISBN 13: 9780394707822
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 96