New York School Collaborations

Ben Hickman, University of Kent, UK Terence Diggory, Skidmore College, USA Susan Rosenbaum, University of Georgia, USA Ellen Levy, Pratt Institute, USA Kimberly Lamm, Duke University, USA Jenni Quilter, New York University, USA Monika Gehlawat, University of Southern Mississippi, USA Ryan Dohoney, University of Kansas, USA Flore Chevaillier, Central State University, USA Erica Kaufman, The Graduate Center, CUNY, USA

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