A Day Like Any Other

Title: A Day Like Any Other Author: Nathan Kernan ISBN: 9780374281175 Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux Published: 2025 Binding: Hardcover Language: English Number of Pages: 512 Section: Biography & Autobiography | Literary Figures Publisher Description: The long-awaited biography of the mercurial, troubled, brilliant poet James Schuyler, the Pulitzer Prize winner who helped shape the New York School of poetry in the 1960s.Nathan Kernan's A Day Like Any Other: The Life of James Schuyler is the definitive biography of the great American poet who, along with Frank O'Hara, Barbara Guest, John Ashbery, and Kenneth Koch, was an original member of the so called New York School of poetry. Opening with Schuyler's legendary first public reading in 1988, 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,