Stacy Doris is a poet eager to fly in the face of convention always with the most delicate of manners. She manages to politely affront the reader. She consistently wrote and lived displaying a rare courage — to evolve from one book to the next, to invent, to create cultural, literary and historical commentary, to translate, and to explore the dual impulses of the erotic and the violent—always within an intricate envelope of newly-conceived form.