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James Marcus Schuyler was born in Chicago, Il, but he was inspired to write poetry when he moved with his family to East Aurora, NY, outside of Buffalo, when he was 15 years old. The town was the setting for two of his most famous works, The Morning of the Poem and A Few Days, an elegy for his mother.
Schuyler did not write through college, and he bounced from place to place for a while, spending time in New York and Italy. He became a curator of circulating exhibitions at NY's Museum of Mod..
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