performance and the poem 131- Judith Butler, ‘Performative Acts and Gender Construction’, in
Michael Huxley and Noel Witts (eds), The Twentieth Century
Performance Reader (London: Routledge, 1996 ), pp. 128 – 9. - Lyn Hejinian, My Life (Los Angeles: Sun & Moon, [ 1980 ]
1987 ). All subsequent references to this edition of Hejinian’s
poems are given in the text. - Lyn Hejinian, ‘The Rejection of Closure’ [ 1985 ], in The
Language of Inquiry (Berkeley: University of California Press,
2000 ), pp. 40 – 58 (p. 51 ). - Lyn Hejinian, ‘The Person and Description’, Poetics Journal,
9 ( 1991 ), 167. - Hejinian, ‘The Rejection of Closure’, p. 55.
- Lyn Hejinian, ‘If Written is Writing’, in The Language of
Inquiry, pp. 25 – 9 (p. 28 ). - Judith Butler, ‘Gender as Performance: An Interview with
Judith Butler by Peter Osbourne and Lynne Segal for Radical
Philosophy’, in Kathryn Woodward (ed.) Identity and Difference
(London: Sage, 1997 ), p. 235. - Butler, ‘Gender as Performance’, p. 235.
- See the brief discussion in Chapter 1 of Maurice Merleau-
Ponty, The Phenomenology of Perception, trans. Colin Smith
(London: Routledge, 1999 ). - Kate Fagan, The Long Moment (Cambridge: Salt, 2002 ), p. 25.
All subsequent references to this edition of Fagan’s poems are
given in the text. - Dom Romeo, ‘Interview with Kate Fagan’. Available online
at http://standanddeliver.blogs.com/dombo/ 2004 / 03 /kate_
fagan.html. - David McCooey, ‘Surviving Australian Poetry: The New
Lyricism’, 1 May 2007. Available online at http://australia.
poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/
index.php?obj_id= 9031. - Kate Fagan, ‘ “A Work of Acknowledgment,” A Poetics of
Happily’, How 2 , 1. 6 ( 2001 ). Available online at http://www.asu.
edu/pipercwcenter/how 2 journal/archive/onlinearchive/
v 1 6 _ 2001 /current/readings/encounters/fagan.html. - Fagan, ‘ “A Work of Acknowledgment” ’.
- Ezra Pound, The ABC of Reading (New York: New Directions,