Choke
Copyright © 2004
by Stacey Waite
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In this sequence of fierce, dry-eyed poems, Stacey Waite is trying
to tell the truth about my body, writing with unblinking honesty of
the urge both to embrace and elude engagement with her own body and
those other bodies she desires. Plaintive and bold, Choke
explores not just the vagaries of flesh and love but the constraints
of gender, itself as rancorous as a wayward lover. — David
Groff
Stacey Waite is among the most dazzling and culturally
relevant of living poets — an original story-teller, with
amazing stories to tell. — Denise Duhamel
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Copyright © 2010
by Stacey Waite
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The effect of this marvelous new chapbook is both breathless and
sorrowful, which is to say that this is a work of utmost emotional,
narrative, and philosophical complexity. — Lynn Emanuel
I know of no other living poet who spins the erotic with such
delicacy and power. Stacey Waite is the literary lovechild of ee
cummings and Anais Nin, and I cherish her work. — Kate Bornstein
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Copyright © 2006
by Stacey Waite
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This chapbook is indeed a "love poem," but this is no ode, no
easy song of praise — rather, Stacey Waite has composed a
collection fraught with the complexities and mutability of identity
and desire. — Jennifer Perrine
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