Today's Topics:
Tickled Pink
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Date: Wed, 9 Mar 94 14:08:29 EST
From: Mark_Colan.LOTUS@crd.lotus.com
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Subject: Tickled Pink
[The following is an excerpt from Douglas Crase's eulogy and review of
James Schuyler's Collected Poems, from the January 1994 issue of Poetry.]
...Jimmy's was just the message we needed to hear.
"You see, you invent choices where none exist,"
says his magnificent "Hymn to Life," and when I
read that line in context I recognized it as the
adrenaline of a new responsibility. The exciting thing
about knowing as well as reading Jimmy was to observe
how his ethics seemed to emerge directly from the
life around us...
One evening after dinner at our apartment he was
admiring the pink cover Robert Dash had done for
John Koethe's book The Late Wisconsin Spring.
It was, he said, "a very fine pink." But Jimmy,
I warned, Bob says it's the wrong pink.
Jimmy regarded me silently for a moment, then in
that voice of sudden gravity he said, "Only if you had
another pink in mind."
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