A Day Like Any Other: The Life of James Schuyler

Nathan Kernan'sA Day Like Any Otheris the definitive biography of the great American poet who was an original member of the so called New York School of poetry. Kernan goes back to trace the tumultuous arc of the poet's life and work.

Born in Chicago in 1923, James Schuyler grew up in Washington, DC, and upstate New York before moving to New York City in 1944, where he fell into the social orbit of the poet W. H. Auden. After two years in Italy, he returned to New York and began to publish h...