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This chapter situates Erica HuntHunt, Erica.’s life-long focus on the issue of communitycommunity. within the Language poetryLanguage poetry. scene in the Bay area in the 1970s and later that decade in New York City. The innovative poetry communities in both cities had a profound impact on not only HuntHunt, Erica.’s aesthetic but also on her ethicsethics., which depends in her life and work on the evolution of her notion of community itself. Most specifically, the chapter will locate HuntHunt, Erica. in San Francisco and its burgeoning Language poetry scene by gathering instances of public acknowledgments of HuntHunt, Erica.’s presence at readings, her influence on their writing, or her publication in various Language-related venues. Part of this history involves relating new information gathered from unpublished interviews that I held with the poet over a decade. Secondly, the chapter aims to give a general sense of not only how Language poets articulated a sense of their own poetic scene (often in conflict with “rival” scenes or even between themselves) but the philosophical notion of community at large. In many statements of poetics and even more journalistic columns and letters, writers like Ron SillimanSilliman, Ron., Leslie ScalapinoScalapino, Leslie., Carla HarrymanHarryman, Carla., and Charles BernsteinBernstein, Charles. make a certain notion of community central to their association and production. This section of the chapter attempts to generalize their complex and competing notions of community as an ethical debate. To that end, I look mainly at her books that in part reflect on her experiences in the 1980s, Local HistoryHunt, Erica. (Roof 1993) and ArcadeHunt, Erica. (Kelsey St., 1996), but I also draw on her other books and published writings, which are relatively few considering the length of her career as a writer. Ultimately, the chapter argues that HuntHunt, Erica.’s poetics depends in large part on a notion of community in which the inclusion of difference—particularly, of the OtherOther., what cannot even be measured as “different” or “same”—sets a welcoming tone, even in the face of social isolation, nuclear apocalypse, and environmental degradation.

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Erica Hunt’s Poet(h)ics of Community

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  • Grant Matthew Jenkins

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This chapter situates Erica HuntHunt, Erica.’s life-long focus on the issue of communitycommunity. within the Language poetryLanguage poetry. scene in the Bay area in the 1970s and later that decade in New York City. The innovative poetry communities in both cities had a profound impact on not only HuntHunt, Erica.’s aesthetic but also on her ethicsethics., which depends in her life and work on the evolution of her notion of community itself. Most specifically, the chapter will locate HuntHunt, Erica. in San Francisco and its burgeoning Language poetry scene by gathering instances of public acknowledgments of HuntHunt, Erica.’s presence at readings, her influence on their writing, or her publication in various Language-related venues. Part of this history involves relating new information gathered from unpublished interviews that I held with the poet over a decade. Secondly, the chapter aims to give a general sense of not only how Language poets articulated a sense of their own poetic scene (often in conflict with “rival” scenes or even between themselves) but the philosophical notion of community at large. In many statements of poetics and even more journalistic columns and letters, writers like Ron SillimanSilliman, Ron., Leslie ScalapinoScalapino, Leslie., Carla HarrymanHarryman, Carla., and Charles BernsteinBernstein, Charles. make a certain notion of community central to their association and production. This section of the chapter attempts to generalize their complex and competing notions of community as an ethical debate. To that end, I look mainly at her books that in part reflect on her experiences in the 1980s, Local HistoryHunt, Erica. (Roof 1993) and ArcadeHunt, Erica. (Kelsey St., 1996), but I also draw on her other books and published writings, which are relatively few considering the length of her career as a writer. Ultimately, the chapter argues that HuntHunt, Erica.’s poetics depends in large part on a notion of community in which the inclusion of difference—particularly, of the OtherOther., what cannot even be measured as “different” or “same”—sets a welcoming tone, even in the face of social isolation, nuclear apocalypse, and environmental degradation.