News at Eleven: 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 verse: Almost unknown outside the poetry world, he was massively influential within it. To read Schuyler is, almost inevitably, to be struck with the desire to be a poet.

Schuyler's powerful and frequently moving descriptions of nature, of the weather, of domestic engagements--limpid descriptions that lay upon the sensory world like a pellucid dew--have often seemed to constitute the heart of his poetic accomplishment.

from Los Angeles Times: 'Other Flowers: Uncollected Poems' by James Schuyler

~~~~~~~~~~~