Other Influences: An Untold History of Feminist Avant-Garde Poetry Zoë Hitzig Obsessing on the relationship between

Obsessing on the relationship between creation and absence

The ideals of simple country living have captivated poets for a crow’s age

In listening to Black queer life in Berlin

and obliteration

As if that mattered

Other Influences: An Untold History of Feminist Avant-Garde Poetry Zoë Hitzig Obsessing on the relationship betweened. Jennifer Firestone & Marcella Durand Other Influences 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