Other Influences: An Untold History of Feminist Avant-Garde Poetryed. 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