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

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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.

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