The Velvet Underground, it has been said, did not sell many records, but everyone who bought one went out and started his or her own band. James Schuyler was, perhaps, the Velvet Underground of ...

And some write poems in the hope that someday flowers will bloom in the barrels of the Kalashnikov instead of bullets. These poems express that hope. What are we supposed to do when war breaks out?

The World Is Breaking in Flowers the Breath of Things. By Precious Okoyomon. Our love is a blue instant and forward-looking sky Every dream is a moment of freedom Bliss hovering above the void ...

Poem: My Father Disappears Into Flowers. Share full article. By Jan Beatty. Selected by Naomi Shihab Nye. Published Aug. 13, 2020 Updated Aug. 16, 2020. Poetry forever grants us leaps and blurs.

The topic of the first poem, “Tiger-Lilies,” doesn’t necessarily make it stand out; poems about flowers were not exactly unknown in the 19th-century Atlantic.

The Velvet Underground, it has been said, did not sell many records, but everyone who bought one went out and started his or her own band. James Schuyler was, perhaps, the Velvet Underground of ...

Other Flowers: Uncollected Poems James Schuyler, , edited by James Meetze and Simon Pettet. . Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $26 (220pp) ISBN 978-0-374-53209-3 ...