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STACY DORIS’s previous books of poetry are Kildare, Paramour, Conference, Knot, Cheerleader’s Guide to the World: Council Book, and The Cake Part. She also wrote three books in French and translated three volumes of French poetry into English. She died on January 31, 2012 at her home in San Francisco, where she taught in the Creative Writing Programs at SFSU.

“A roiling, violent lyrical enjambment rides across and through the pulse of six-syllable lines in these heart-rending poems, braiding nominal substantives with ruinous but glorious transition. They stutter and retreat, hoping to stall for time, since “no time’s not want.” The felt sensual world, natural and artifactual, pivots toward and away from an acutely embodied appetite and desire, everywhere routed through love. If Hegel and Paul Celan hover over these poems, they are angels of thwarted mercy. Fledge.”—Ann Lauterbach