Poetry. Taking the point of view of a cheerleader, Doris has done a loose translation of the important Inca text Popul Vuh. The result is an amazing series of poems that work stunningly as lyric poems and also extend the readers' horizons in many directions. With drawings of football plays, CHEERLEADER'S GUIDE is one of Roof Books most cogent recent publications.

"Imagine Reese Witherspoon with the rebels in Chiapas, recounting the history of civilization & its collapse as transmitted by flying Tibetan monks. Alternately, imagine the love child of William Burroughs & John Berryman, but with pom-poms & a little literalism on the shotgun formation. Give me an A! This is a great book."—Ron Silliman

Author City: SAN FRANCISCO, CA USA

Stacy Doris's books written in English include CHEERLEADER'S GUIDE TO THE WORLD: COUNCIL BOOK, Knot, CONFERENCE, PARAMOUR and KILDARE. Written in French are Parlement and, semi-anonymously, La vie de Chester Steven Wiener écrite par sa femme, and Une annèe à New York avec Chester. She co-edited three collections of French poetry translated by American poets, among them, with Chet Wiener, Christophe Tarkos's MA LANGUE EST POÉTIQUE: SELECTED WORK. She was an assistant professor of Creative Writing at San Francisco State University.

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