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Title Among friends : engendering the social site of poetry / edited by Anne Dewey and Libbie Rifkin
Published Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, 2013

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Description 1 online resource
Series Contemporary North American poetry series
Contemporary North American poetry series.
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
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject 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.
Friends
POETRY -- American -- General.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Poetry.
American poetry
Friendship
Mentoring of authors
Poetry -- Authorship -- Social aspects
Social networks
United States
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author Dewey, Anne Day, editor
Rifkin, Libbie, editor
ISBN 1609381718
9781609381714