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Poetry. "In the way that Little Nemo never quite reaches his dreamland desires, the team players in Stacy Doris' 'cultural' gudie will never finish their game. They (and we) are suspended in the animated crackle of a postnuclear mythology. Classic texts--Mayan, Tibetan, New Jerseyan--are re-released as videogame. What is the job of an ancient lineage when future acncestries are bound to be bioengineered? Read this book for the stats and scores"--Jena Osman. Stacy Doris' books written in English include Knot, CONFERENCE, PARAMOUR and KILDARE. Written in French are Parliament and, semi-anonymously, LA vie de Chester Steven Wiener ecrite par sa femme, and Une annee a New York avec Chester. He has co-edited three collections of French poetry translated by American poets, and she is an assistant professor of Creative Writing at San Francisco State University.
About the author
Stacy Doris' (May 21, 1962 - January 31, 2012) last published works were
Fledge: A Phenomenology of Spirit, which she completed shortly before her death, and
The Cake Part in which some 50 poets, film-makers and other artists contributed to making short films for the launch (see Cake Part Virtual Launch). Doris was an associate professor of creative writing at San Francisco State University, which created the Stacy Doris Memorial Poetry Award in her honor.For Doris, writing, learning, living and romancing were all in the service of one another. Doris was influential in bridging the worlds of French and American poetry through her own fictions, as well as in the anthologies she edited.
