Among friends : engendering the social site of poetry / edited by Anne Dewey and Libbie Rifkin.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dewey, Anne Day.

Rifkin, Libbie.

Series:

Contemporary North American poetry series.

Contemporary North American poetry series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--20th century--History and criticism.

American poetry.

American poetry--21st century--History and criticism.

Poetry--Authorship--Social aspects.

Poetry.

Social networks--United States.

Social networks.

Mentoring of authors--United States.

Mentoring of authors.

Friendship.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (285 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Philosophers and theorists have long recognized both the subversive and the transformative possibilities of friendship, the intimacy of which can transcend the impersonality of such identity categories as race, class, or gender. Unlike familial relations, friendships are chosen, opening a space of relative freedom in which to create and explore new identities. This process has been particularly valuable to poets marginalized by gender or sexuality since the second half of the twentieth century, as friendship provides both a buffer against and a wedge into predominantly male homosocial poe

Contents:

Introduction / Anne Dewey and Libbie Rifkin

Friendship and Women's Poetic Careers. How You Want to Be Styled: Philip Whalen in Correspondence with Joanne Kyger, 1959-1964 / Linda Russo

I Just Got Different Theories: Patti Smith and the Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church / Daniel Kane

Community 2.0. Presence in the Poets' Polis: Hippie Phenomenology in Bolinas / Lytle Shaw

When L=A: Language, Authorship, and Equality in L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E Magazine / Peter Middleton

After Literary Community: The Grand Piano and the Politics of Friendship / Barrett Watten

Between Friendship Network and Literary Movement: Flarf as a Poetics of Sociability / Maria Damon

Inclinations. Jargon Society: The Remote Relations of Lorine Niedecker and Jonathan Williams / Ross Hair

The Volley Maintained Nears Orgasm: Rae Armantrout, Ron Silliman, and the Cross-Gender Collaboration / Andrew Epstein

In/Complete: Locating Origins of the Poet in Jennifer Moxley's In Memoriams to Helena Bennett / Ann Vickery

Among Friends. Black Took Collective: On Intimacy & Origin / Duriel E. Harris, Dawn Lundy Martin, and Ronaldo V. Wilson.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781609381714

1609381718

OCLC:

841207971