The career of James Schuyler has often been associated with the New York School of poets, John Ashbery, Frank O'Hara, Kenneth Koch, and Barbara Guest. Like any significant movement in the arts, such collocation of talent tends not only to define and anneal the achievements of the writers through their interaction but also to de-emphasize the individual successes or limitations of the group's members. The group dynamic of the New York School is also complicated by the influence of the Abstract Expressionist painters whose careers, by the mid 1950s, were significantly more advanced and gaining international attention, especially Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Larry Rivers, Franz Kline, and Willem de Kooning. Schuyler's work has been strongly influenced by painterly vision and techniques. Like O'Hara, he worked for the Museum of Modern Art organizing exhibitions that circulated throughout the United States and Europe; like Ashbery, he was on the staff...