New York School Collaborations

Ranging from conceptual theater to visual poetry the New York School explored the possibilities of collaboration like no other group of American poets. New York School Collaborations gathers essays from a diverse group of scholars on the alliances and artistic co-productions of New York School poets, painters, musicians, and film-makers.

Ranging from conceptual theater to visual poetry the New York School explored the possibilities of collaboration like no other group of American poets. New York School Collaborations gathers essays from a diverse group of scholars on the alliances and artistic co-productions of New York School poets, painters, musicians, and film-makers.

Introduction: New York School Collaborations and The Coronation Murder Mystery; Mark Silverberg 1. 'Our program is the absence of any program': the New York School Reading the Past; Ben Hickman 2. Ballet, Basketball and the Erotics of New York School Collaboration; Terence Diggory 3. 'Permeation, ventilation, occlusion': Reading John Ashbery and Joe Brainard's The Vermont Notebook in the Tradition of Surrealist Collaboration; Susan Rosenbaum 4. Slippery Subjects: Thoughts on the Occasion of Ashbery and Koch's 'Death Paints a Picture'; Ellen Levy 5. Fair Realism: The Aesthetics of Restraint in Barbara Guest's Collaborations; Kimberly Lamm 6. Life Without Malice: The Minor Arts of Collaboration; Jenni Quilter 7. 'An Opposite Force's Breath': Medium-boundedness, Lyric Poetry and Painting in Frank O'Hara'; Monika Gehlawat 8. Mourning Coterie: Morton Feldman and Frank O'Hara's Posthumous Collaborations; Ryan Dohoney 9. 'Everything Turns into Writing': Rhizomes and Poetry Re-Processings in Ted Berrigan's Sonnets; Flore Chevaillier 10. Giant Creatures Sculpted Here: Collectivity, Gender, and Performance in the Collaborations of Eileen Myles; Erica Kaufman