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index Adam, Helen, 38n3, 40n24 Adorno, Theodor, 121, 219 aesthetics, 11, 60, 117n11, 127, 148, 233 affect: Flarf and, 130, 133, 135, 148; friendship bonds and, 5–7, 192, 195, 201–02, 207; poststructuralist theory of, 94; publishing choices and, 194 affection in friendship, 5, 22, 58, 134–35, 155, 199, 202, 223 African American: avant-garde, 11; feminism, 17–18n14; identity, 98, 166. See also Black Took Collective Agamben, Giorgio, 195 Allen, Donald, 21, 31; and The New American Poetry anthology, 27– 28, 39n20–21, 40n24, 72, 84n5, 85n8 alterity. See difference amanuensis, 173, 187 Andrews, Bruce, 99, 129n28; on authorship, 93–95; as editor of L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E, 87, 89; on Language writing as form, 125 androgyny, 14, 36–37, 42n66, 48 anonymity of poets, 55, 95, 149, 168, 200 anthology, 10, 14, 16n6, 28, 90, 96, 104, 130, 228. See also titles of individual anthologies anti-essentialism, 118, 175 Arendt, Hannah, 6–9, 16n5 Aristotle, 7, 137, 191–94, 197, 199, 201–02, 205 Armantrout, Rae, 200; contributions to The Grand Piano, 119; feminist resistance to Language writing, 172–78, 182–85; “Poetic Silence,” 176, 184; “Why Don’t Women Do Language-Oriented Writing?,” 92–93, 95, 97–98, 175. See also “Engines” audience, 47–48, 52, 62, 101, 124, 126, 222–23 aura (poetic), 44, 46, 54, 144, 199 authority, 78–79, 82, 99; avant-garde, 15, 38n9; and gender, 3, 12–14, 103–04; poetic, 76, 83, 202; and poststructuralist language theory, 90, 93, 95, 99; vatic, 44, 53 authorship, 10, 46, 93–94; and agency, 12–14, 32, 46, 90–91, 126; and editing , 87–91, 97, 101; and gender, 88, 91–92, 98–99, 101. See also co­ authorship; collaboration; death of the author; multiauthorship autobiography, 3, 119–22, 181, 197; collective, 106, 111 avant-garde community, 10, 51, 59, 130, 171, 174; collaboration and, 172, 188, 188n2, 194; feminist critique of, 13–14, 17n11, 175, 177– 78, 182; formation of, 15, 38n9, 114, 121, 125, 129n31, 131, 165, 173, 193; gender and, 3, 172, 174, 185; masculinity and, 12, 14–15, 44, 131, 133, 182 avant-garde poetry, 9, 60, 104, 107; and poetics, 23, 37, 55, 140; and race, 10–11, 14, 16n6. See also experimental writing 260 | Index Barg, Barbara, 98 Barthes, Roland, 88–89, 94–96, 105n5 Bartram, John, 159–60, 163 Bartram, William, 160, 193 Bataille, Georges, 8, 118 Beat generation, 23–24, 34, 38, 63n10 Beat poetry, 38, 45–46, 84n5, 86n16, 171; second generation, 13 Beautiful Enemies (Epstein), 5, 153, 188n2, 191, 194 Beckett, Samuel, 47 Bee, Susan, 105n1 belatedness, 8, 113, 133 Benjamin, Walter, 159 Bennett, Helena: friendship with Moxley, 192, 194–95; rivalry with Moxley, 200, 203; roles in Moxley’s poetry, 195–97, 198–99, 201–02, 203–05, 207 Benson, Steve, 112–13, 121–22, 124, 128n14 Berkson, Bill, 68, 75 Berlant, Lauren, 202 Bernstein, Charles, 71, 105n6, 129n28; as editor of L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E, 87, 97–99, 102, 105n3; on Language writing community, 98, 102–03, 174–75 Berrigan, Ted, 45–46, 58, 63n9, 68, 77, 79, 84n1, 86n17 bisexuality, 56 Black Arts Movement, 10, 16n6, 18n4 Black Mountain College, 164; and poets, 3, 17n9, 46, 72, 84, 109, 170n4, 171 Black Took Collective (BTC): and bodylanguage relationship, 215, 218–21, 223–25, 227; formation of, 211–15, 217–18; and oppositional poetics, 212–13, 218; and performing black-­ ness, 11, 15, 214, 218–19, 222–23, 226, 228, 231, 235–36 Blake, William, 21, 28, 57, 116 Blanchot, Maurice, 8, 207n1 Blaser, Robin, 38n8, 132, 150n3 bohemian subculture, 16n8, 57, 137 Bolinas: as dystopia, 79–80, 82; gender politics of, 76, 81–84; poetry about, 69–70, 73–79, 82–84; as utopia , 67–68, 80–83, 85n9 boy gangs, 22, 24, 136. See also homo-­ sociality Brainard, Joe, 48, 68; Bolinas Journal, 81–82, 85n7, 86n17 Brinnin, John, 53 BTC. See Black Took Collective Buddhism, 21, 24, 29, 30, 36, 40n28. See also Zen Bunting, Basil, 155, 169 Butera, Karen, 192 camaraderie, 198, 204; male, 48 canon formation, 10, 12, 14, 128n19, 135 career building, 12, 23, 55, 168, 203; friendship and, 3–4, 193, 200 Carroll, Jim, 56, 63n4 Cave Canem (CC), 3, 11, 211–15, 217, 221, 234–35 Cendrars, Blaise, 49, 57 Chambers, Deborah, 191 Change (magazine) 32, 40n36 citizenship, 68, 118, 128n24, 148; friendship and, 6, 8 civic allegiance, 6, 148; disruption of, 135–37...

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