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Record Nr.

UNINA9910808124003321

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Iowa City, : University of Iowa Press, 2013

ISBN

1-60938-171-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (285 p.)

Collana

Contemporary North American poetry series

Altri autori (Persone)

DeweyAnne Day

RifkinLibbie

Disciplina

811/.5409353

Soggetti

American poetry - 20th century - History and criticism

American poetry - 21st century - History and criticism

Poetry - Authorship - Social aspects

Social networks - United States

Mentoring of authors - United States

Friendship

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.



Sommario/riassunto

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