New York School Collaborations: The Color of Vowels

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Introduction....Pages 1-16
“Our Program Is the Absence of Any Program”: The New York School Reading the Past....Pages 17-33
Ballet, Basketball, and the Erotics of New York School Collaboration....Pages 35-57
“Permeation, Ventilation, Occlusion”: Reading John Ashbery and Joe Brainard’s The Vermont Notebook in the Tradition of Surrealist Collaboration....Pages 59-89
Slippery Subjects: Thoughts on the Occasion of Ashbery and Koch’s “Death Paints a Picture”....Pages 91-112
Fair Realism: The Aesthetics of Restraint in Barbara Guest’s Collaborations....Pages 113-140
Life without Malice: The Minor Arts of Collaboration....Pages 141-161
“An Opposite Force’s Breath”: Medium-Boundedness, Lyric Poetry, and Painting in Frank O’Hara....Pages 163-182
Mourning Coterie: Morton Feldman’s Posthumous Collaborations with Frank O’Hara....Pages 183-197
“Everything Turns into Writing”: Rhizomes and Poetry Re-Processings in Ted Berrigan’s Sonnets....Pages 199-213
Giant Creatures Sculpted Here: Collectivity, Gender, and Performance in the Collaborations of Eileen Myles....Pages 215-240
Back Matter....Pages 241-268