Other Influences

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 Contributors