Other Influences

A compelling collection of original essays on influence that restore a feminist avant-garde that includes women of color, queer, and trans women. Unlike other collections of “writers on writing,” Contributors: Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Nicole Brossard, Brenda Coultas, Mónica de la Torre, Tonya M. Foster, Renee Gladman, Carla Harryman, Allison Adelle Hedge Coke, Erica Hunt, Rachel Levitsky, Bernadette Mayer, Tracie Morris, Harryette Mullen, Eileen Myles, Sawako Nakayasu, Hoa Nguyen, Julie Patton, KPrevallet, Evelyn Reilly, Trish Salah, Prageeta Sharma, Patricia Spears Jones, Stacy Szymaszek, Anne Tardos, Anne Waldman, Rosmarie Waldrop...

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edited by Marcella Durand and Jennifer Firestone

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Introduction
1 Let’s All Have Dinner Together -- Bernadette Mayer
2 She summons signs of what the heart smolders to gather at the mouth, for if there aren’t smoke signals, no one will believe the fire. -- Mónica de la Torre
3 Other Influences -- Rosmarie Waldrop
4 The Role of Philosophy -- Renee Gladman
5 Nexus: “Avant-Garde Feminist Poetics” -- Rachel Blau DuPlessis
6 Parentheticalities: (Or How I (We)Came to Be(ing)) -- Tonya M. Foster
7 In lieu of -- Trish Salah
8 Accidental Scalapino -- Eileen Myles
9 Influence: Two Takes -- Carla Harryman
10 La Déferlante -- Nicole Brossard
11 Shouldered -- Tracie Morris
12 Four Questions -- Interview with Mei-mei Berssenbrugge
13 “When You Write Poetry You Find the Architecture of Your Life ” -- Hoa Nguyen
14 In Fluence -- Cecilia Vicuña
15 Props to My Peeps: A Roll Call -- Harryette Mullen
16 Writing by Hand—Beginning -- Erica Hunt
17 The Long Arc -- Brenda Coultas
18 Watch You Say! -- Julie Patton
19 Pussy Forward Poetics or The Sex in the Middle : Reading Akilah Oliver and Gail Scott -- Rachel Levitsky
20 Original Lineages -- Allison Adelle Hedge Coke
21 Here where we hold each other dearly: An annotated bibliography of inferences and influences -- KPrevallet
22 Viva Pasolini! -- Stacy Szymaszek
23 Tentacular Time & Space -- Anne Waldman
24 “Finally we are allowed to write, but the world is dying.” -- Evelyn Reilly
25 Abstract Expression: What’s Left When the Ancestors Are Not Oracles? And What Is the Aphorism for Me? -- Prageeta Sharma
26 My Life Among Men -- Anne Tardos
27 Vulnerable Rumbles, Rehearsal for Life -- Sawako Nakayasu
28 Capri Pants and No Travel Journals Influences Come in Words and Fabric -- Patricia Spears Jones
Acknowledgments
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