Stacy Doris
{{short description|American poet}}
Stacy Doris (May 21, 1962 – January 31, 2012) was a poet who wrote in English{{cite web |title=Stacy Doris |work=Penn Sound (University of Pennsylvania) |url=http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Doris.php |accessdate=July 19, 2014}}{{cite web |title=With Respect:Stacy Doris |author=Harriet Staff |date= February 3, 2012 |work=Poetry foundation |url=http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2012/02/with-respect-stacy-doris-1962-2012/ |accessdate=July 29, 2014}} and French.{{cite web |title=Stacy Doris |url=http://www.pol-editeur.com/index.php?spec=auteur&numauteur=5897 |accessdate=July 19, 2014 |language=fr}}{{cite web |title=L'intraduisible Stacy Doris |date=October 10, 2012 |url=http://ifverso.com/fr/node/628251 |access-date=July 19, 2014 |language=fr |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140730034243/http://ifverso.com/fr/node/628251 |archive-date=July 30, 2014 }} Doris used the name "Madame Wiener" or «Sa Femme»Archived at [https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211208/BIo5tMBFaHs Ghostarchive]{{cbignore}} and the [https://web.archive.org/web/20130704194407/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIo5tMBFaHs Wayback Machine]{{cbignore}}: {{cite AV media| url = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIo5tMBFaHs| title = Sa femme lit "La Vie de Chester Steven Wiener.mov | website=YouTube}}{{cbignore}} in some of her French work.
Life and work
Stacy Doris was an innovative writer who imparted her “ferocity of living and invention” as she created new worlds of relationships with each book.{{cite web| url = http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2012/02/with-respect-stacy-doris-1962-2012/| title = With Respect: Stacy Doris, 1962-2012 by Harriet… {{!}} Poetry Foundation| date = 21 March 2022}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.goldengatexpress.org/2012/03/07/obit_stacy-doris/|title=SF State creative writing professor Stacy Doris dies of cancer}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.thevolta.org/ewc17-mchernoff-p1.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140726172534/http://www.thevolta.org/ewc17-mchernoff-p1.html|url-status=usurped|archive-date=July 26, 2014|title = Evening Will Come}} As a teacher, each semester she would offer deep, exploratory seminars in different topics. For Doris, writing, learning, living and romancing were all in the service of one another.{{Cite web|url=http://www.thevolta.org/ewc17-kleja-p1.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140726172636/http://www.thevolta.org/ewc17-kleja-p1.html|url-status=usurped|archive-date=July 26, 2014|title = Evening Will Come}}{{Cite web|url=http://jacket2.org/commentary/stacy-doris-little-memoir-ann-lauterbach|title = Stacy Doris : A Little Memoir by Ann Lauterbach | Jacket2}}
Doris was influential in bridging the worlds of French and American poetry through her own fictions, as well as in the anthologies she edited. Some examples include The Violence of the White Page (Tyuonyi, 1991),{{cite book |title=Violence of the White Page |author1=Stacy Doris |author2=Phillip Foss |author3=Emmanuel Hocquard |date=1991 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=X9tWAAAAYAAJ |accessdate=July 19, 2014}} with Emmanuel Hocquard, Twenty-two New (to North America) French Poets (Raddle Moon, 1997),{{cite book |title=Raddle Moon 16 : Modern French Poetry in Translation |author1=Stacy Doris |author2=Norma Cole |url=http://ebookoninternet.com/1123613/raddle-moon-16-modern-french-poetry-translation-norma-cole-stacy-doris.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150128132845/http://ebookoninternet.com/1123613/raddle-moon-16-modern-french-poetry-translation-norma-cole-stacy-doris.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=January 28, 2015 |access-date=July 19, 2014 }} with Norma Cole, and from French to English, Quelques-uns de mes contemporains: New American Writers (Java 2001).http://catalogue.bnf.fr/servlet/biblio?idNoeud=1&ID=34415765&SN1=0&SN2=0&host=catalogue {{Dead link|date=September 2022}}
Doris was an associate professor of creative writing at San Francisco State University,{{citation |title=In Memoriam Stacy Doris |work=San Francisco State University Campus Memo |url=http://www.sfsu.edu/~news/cmemo/spring12/feb13memoriam.htm |accessdate=July 19, 2014}} where a poetry award has been created in her honour.{{citation |title=New poetry award created in memory of Professor Stacy Doris |author=Stacy Doris |date=November 20, 2013 |url=http://www.sfsu.edu/~news/cmemo/spring12/feb13memoriam.htm |accessdate=July 19, 2014}} Her last published works were Fledge: A Phenomenology of Spirit ([http://www.nightboat.org/catalog Nightboat Books] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120828022502/http://www.nightboat.org/catalog |date=2012-08-28 }}, 2013), which she completed shortly before her death, and The Cake Part (Publication Studio, 2011){{cite web |title=The Cake Part |author=Stacy Doris |url=http://thecakepart.com/ |accessdate=July 19, 2014}} of which some 50 poets, film-makers and other artists contributed to making short films for the launch (see [http://vimeo.com/user7104620/videos/sort:plays Cake Part Virtual Launch]).
Bibliography
=Books=
- Fledge: a Phenomenology of Spirit (Night-boat Books, Callicoon, NY, 2012)
- The Cake Part (Portland, OR: Publication Studio) 2011.
- Paramour trans. Anne Portugal and Caroline Dubois (Paris: P.O.L) 2009.
- Knot (Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press) 2006. Winner of the University of Georgia Contemporary Poetry Series Award.
- Parlement (Paris: P.O.L) 2005.
- Cheerleader’s Guide to the World : Council Book (NY: Roof) 2006.
- Conference (Bedford MA: Potes & Poets) 2001.
- Une Année à New York avec Chester (Paris: P.O.L) 2000.
- Paramour (San Francisco: Krupskaya) 2000.
- La Vie de Chester Steven Wiener écrite par sa femme (Paris: P.O.L) 1998.
- Comment Aimer, trans. Anne Portugal and Caroline Dubois of Paramour excerpts (Grâne, France: Créaphis) 1998.
- Kildare (NY: Roof) 1995. Reprint at [http://epc.buffalo.edu/presses/roof/Doris_Kildare.html Kildare EPC]
= Audio compositions =
- Parlement (l'Atelier de Création Radiophonique, France Culture Radio, director Jean Couturier) Original broadcast November 13, 2005. Rebroadcast at [http://www.franceculture.fr/emission-l-atelier-de-la-creation-parlement-2012-05-03 ACR, FranceCulture]
=Chapbooks=
- Le temps est à chacun, trans. Martin Richet from Knot (Marseille: Contrat Main) 2002.
- Kildare, trans. Juliette Valery (Bordeaux: Format Américain) 1995.
- Implements for Use (St. Denis: A. Slacik) 1995.
- Mop Factory Incident (NY: Women's Studio) 1995. Reprint at: [http://www.wsworkshop.org/search/j7/j7.html Mop Factory Incident WSW]
=Anthologies and collections=
- Editor, "Quelques-uns de mes contemporains: New American Writers," (Paris: Java) 2001.
- Co-editor (with Chet Wiener), Christophe Tarkos: Ma Langue est Poétique--Selected Work (New York: Roof) 2001.
- Editor, "Recent French Poetics" in Poetry on the Edge; a Symposium (Durham, NC: Duke University) 1999.
- Co-editor (with Norma Cole), Twenty-two New (to North America) French Poets (Vancouver: Raddle Moon) 1997.
- Co-editor (with Emmanuel Hocquard), Violence of the White Page, Contemporary French Poetry in Translation (Santa Fe, NM: Pederal) 1992. Reprint at [http://www.durationpress.com/archives/index.html ViolenceWhitePage Duration]