Among Friends: Engendering the Social Site of Poetry

Contents

contents Acknowledgments vii anne dewey and libbie rifkin Introduction 1 part one | Friendship and Women’s Poetic Careers 19 one | linda russo How You Want to Be Styled: Philip Whalen in Correspondence with Joanne Kyger, 1959–1964 21 two | daniel kane I Just Got Different Theories: Patti Smith and the Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church 43 part two | Community 2.0 65 three | lytle shaw Presence in the Poets’ Polis: Hippie Phenomenology in Bolinas 67 four | peter middleton When L=A: Language, Authorship, and Equality in L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E Magazine 87 five | barrett watten After Literary Community: The Grand Piano and the Politics of Friendship 106 vi | Contents six | maria damon Between Friendship Network and Literary Movement: Flarf as a Poetics of Sociability 130 part three | Inclinations 151 seven | ross hair Jargon Society: The Remote Relations of Lorine Niedecker and Jonathan Williams 153 eight | andrew epstein The Volley Maintained Nears Orgasm: Rae Armantrout, Ron Silliman, and the Cross-Gender Collaboration 171 nine | ann vickery In/Complete: Locating Origins of the Poet in Jennifer Moxley’s In Memoriams to Helena Bennett 191 part four | Among Friends 209 ten | duriel e. harris, dawn lundy martin, and ronaldo v. wilson Black Took Collective: On Intimacy & Origin 211 Bibliography 239 Contributors 257 Index 259 ...