Doris, Stacy 1962-

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Doris, Stacy 1962-

PERSONAL:

Born 1962, in Bridgeport, CT. Education: Brown University, bachelor's degree; University of Iowa, M.F.A.

ADDRESSES:

Office—Department of Creative Writing, San Francisco State University, 1600 Holloway Ave., San Francisco, CA 94132. E-mail—sdoris@sfsu.edu.

CAREER:

San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA, poetry teaching faculty member; Hunter College and City College of New York, City University of New York, NY, adjunct lecturer. Cite Internationale des Arts, Paris, France, 1999-2001.

AWARDS, HONORS:

Gertrude Stein Award in Innovative Poetry, 1994-95; Fund for Poetry Award, 1993; Contemporary Poetry Series Competition, winner, for Knot; Fulbright Teaching Fellowship, 1992.

WRITINGS:

Sleeping Beauty, Brown Literary Forum, 1984.

(Editor, with Emmanuel Hocquard) Violence of the White Page: Contemporary French Poetry in Translation, Pederal (Santa Fe, NM), 1992.

Kildare (poetry), Roof Books (New York, NY), 1995.

Marie Antoinette, Potes & Poets Press (Elmwood, CT), 1995.

(Editor, with Norma Cole) Twenty-two New (to North America) French Poets, Raddle Moon (Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada), 1997.

La Vie de Chester Steven Wiener Écrite par sa Femme, P.O.L. (Paris, France), 1998.

Une Année á New York avec Chester, P.O.L. (Paris, France), 2000.

(Translator) Dominique Fourcade, Everything Happens, Post-Apollo Press (Sausalito, CA), 2000.

Paramour (poetry), Krupskaya (San Francisco, CA), 2000.

Conference, Potes & Poets Press (Elmwood, CT), 2001.

(Editor, with Chet Wiener) Cristophe Tarkos: Ma Langue est Poétique: Selected Work, Roof (New York, NY), 2001.

Parlement, P.O.L. (Paris, France), 2005.

Cheerleader's Guide to the World: Council Book, Roof Books (New York, NY), 2006.

Knot (poetry), University of Georgia Press (Athens, GA), 2006.

Also author of Mop Factory Incident with Melissa Smedley and Implements (for Use) with Anne Slacik. Contributing editor of Poetry on the Edge: A Symposium, Duke University (Durham, NC), 1999. Translator of Tracing by Ryoko Sekiguchi, 2003.

SIDELIGHTS:

Stacy Doris is an American writer and poet who spent a fair amount of time living in France. With her knowledge of French, she translated several books into English. In English, she writes her own works of fiction and poetry. Doris has taught creative writing at Hunter College, City College of New York, and San Francisco State University.

Doris published her first collection of poetry, Kildare, in 1995. This was followed up five years later with Paramour.Boston Review critic, Laura Sims, noted of Paramour that "everything about the book is perfectly balanced, symmetrical." Doris's 2006 collection of poetry, Knot, makes use of epistemology, metaphysics, and nursery rhymes as it attempts to record what happens in a moment. Diane Scharper, writing in Library Journal, felt that the book was full of "difficult if not impossible-to-read prose poems." Slope contributor Karla Kelsey commented that Knot "demands a high level of attention but yields one of poetry's ultimate achievements: an experience capable of transforming the mind engaged with it."

In Conference, Doris mixes a thirteenth-century Sufi poem by Farid ud-Din Attar with procedural verse set against a plethora of concepts ranging over a poet's genealogy, personal ideas, and external influences.

Noting the poem's frequent use of puns and metaphor, Eric Elshtain commented in the Chicago Review that Doris also "buries its content in the linguistic procedures used to build the text." Elshtain concluded: "Doris makes poetry love everything and not know what to do with it all except share the fruits of its labor."

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

Boston Review, summer, 2001, Laura Sims, review of Paramour.

Chicago Review, March 22, 2001, Eric Elshtain, review of Everything Happens, p. 150; March 22, 2003, Eric Elshtain, review of Conference, p. 117.

Library Journal, June 1, 2006, Diane Scharper, review of Knot, p. 122.

Publishers Weekly, June 5, 2006, review of Cheerleader's Guide to the World: Council Book, p. 39.