New York School Collaborations The Color of Vowels

New York School Collaborations gathers ten new essays from a diverse group of interdisciplinary scholars on the alliances and artistic co-productions of New York School poets, painters, musicians, and film-makers. Ranging from conceptual theatre to visual poetry, from experimental film to avant-garde opera, the New York School has explored the possibilities of collaboration like no other group of American poets. Considering relationships between words and images, words and sounds, and words and bodies, these essays shed light on the dialogues between artists and the communities their work continues to produce.

Mark Silverberg is Associate Professor in the department of Language and Letters at Cape Breton University, Canada. He is the author of The New York School Poets and the Neo-Avant Garde.

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