{"product_id":"other-influences-isbn-9780262049283","title":"Other Influences","description":"\u003cb\u003eA compelling collection of original essays on influence that restore a feminist avant-garde that includes women of color, queer, and trans women.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eOther Influences\u003c\/i\u003e frames a new literary history in which feminist, avant-garde, and poetry practices intersect, foregrounding critically neglected but artistically powerful lineages in twentieth- and twenty-first-century North American poetry. In this collection, Marcella Durand and Jennifer Firestone assemble original essays by a range of leading contemporary feminist avant-garde poets asked to consider their lineages, inspirations, and influences. Their reflections contain many surprises, with writers citing scientists, artists, and little-known feminist writers from other eras and traditions; for example, Tracie Morris discusses the Gee's Bend quilters, Carla Harryman writes about her collaboration with Lyn Hejinian, and Cecilia Vicuña cites the Tao Te Ching.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUnlike other collections of “writers on writing,” \u003ci\u003eOther Influences\u003c\/i\u003e demonstrates a complex feminist ethos of paying homage to forebears while at the same time resisting the parts of a history, along with previous concepts of “influence,” that might be stale or limiting. Countering a masculinist model of “influence” à la Harold Bloom, Durand and Firestone illuminate the diverse, nonhierarchical ecosystems of feminist avant-garde poetry and re-envision “influence” through their own lens and on their own terms—aspiring to no less than the unmaking of a canon.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eContributors:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMei-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 WaldropIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e1 Let’s All Have Dinner Together -- Bernadette Mayer\u003cbr\u003e2 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\u003cbr\u003e3 Other Influences -- Rosmarie Waldrop\u003cbr\u003e4 The Role of Philosophy -- Renee Gladman\u003cbr\u003e5 Nexus: “Avant-Garde Feminist Poetics” -- Rachel Blau DuPlessis\u003cbr\u003e6 Parentheticalities: (Or How I (We)Came to Be(ing)) -- Tonya M. Foster\u003cbr\u003e7 In lieu of -- Trish Salah\u003cbr\u003e8 Accidental Scalapino -- Eileen Myles\u003cbr\u003e9 Influence: Two Takes -- Carla Harryman\u003cbr\u003e10 La Déferlante -- Nicole Brossard\u003cbr\u003e11 Shouldered -- Tracie Morris\u003cbr\u003e12 Four Questions -- Interview with Mei-mei Berssenbrugge\u003cbr\u003e13 “When You Write Poetry You Find the Architecture of Your Life ” -- Hoa Nguyen\u003cbr\u003e14 In Fluence -- Cecilia Vicuña\u003cbr\u003e15 Props to My Peeps: A Roll Call -- Harryette Mullen\u003cbr\u003e16 Writing by Hand—Beginning -- Erica Hunt\u003cbr\u003e17 The Long Arc -- Brenda Coultas\u003cbr\u003e18 Watch You Say! -- Julie Patton\u003cbr\u003e19 Pussy Forward Poetics or The Sex in the Middle : Reading Akilah Oliver and Gail Scott -- Rachel Levitsky\u003cbr\u003e20 Original Lineages -- Allison Adelle Hedge Coke\u003cbr\u003e21 Here where we hold each other dearly: An annotated bibliography of inferences and influences -- KPrevallet\u003cbr\u003e22 Viva Pasolini! -- Stacy Szymaszek\u003cbr\u003e23 Tentacular Time \u0026amp; Space -- Anne Waldman\u003cbr\u003e24 “Finally we are allowed to write, but the world is dying.” -- Evelyn Reilly\u003cbr\u003e25 Abstract Expression: What’s Left When the Ancestors Are Not Oracles? And What Is the Aphorism for Me? -- Prageeta Sharma\u003cbr\u003e26 My Life Among Men -- Anne Tardos\u003cbr\u003e27 Vulnerable Rumbles, Rehearsal for Life -- Sawako Nakayasu\u003cbr\u003e28 Capri Pants and No Travel Journals Influences Come in Words and Fabric -- Patricia Spears Jones\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eContributors\"A remarkable collection of essays.\" \u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eModern Language Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e“It’s a delight to encounter the balance Durand and Firestone manage in their deeply researched approach to twentieth- and twenty-first-century poetics—while featuring twenty-eight poets’ essays unburdened by exegesis. This book is a gem.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Joan Retallack, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Professor Emerita of Humanities, Bard College; author of \u003ci\u003eThe Poethical Wager\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eMarcella Durand is a poet, essayist, and translator. Recent books include \u003ci\u003eTo husband is to tender\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eThe Prospect\u003c\/i\u003e; and a translation from the French of Michèle Métail’s book-length poem, Earth’s Horizons\/Les Horizons du sol. She is the 2021 recipient of the C.D. Wright Award in Poetry from the Foundation of Contemporary Art.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJennifer Firestone is Associate Professor of Writing (Poetry), Chair of Writing, Co-Chair of Literary Studies, and Director of a Pedagogy Program, Academic Fellows, at The New School’s Eugene Lang College in New York City. She is the author of five books of poetry and the co-editor, with Dana Teen Lomax, of \u003ci\u003eLetters to Poets\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"The MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46301020553445,"sku":"NP9780262049283","price":32.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780262049283.jpg?v=1767734295","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/other-influences-isbn-9780262049283","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}