Cheerleader’s Guide to the World: Council Book

By Stacy Doris

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. Stacy Doris's books written in English include CHEERLEADER'S GUIDE TO THE WORLD: COUNCIL BOOK, Knot, CONFERENCE, PARAMOUR and KILDARE. Written in French areParlement and, semi-anonymously, La vie de Chester Steven Wiener écrite par sa femme, andUne 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. 

• Language: English
• Publisher: Roof Books
• Release date: Jan 1, 2006
• ISBN: 9781931824187

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Cheerleader’s Guide to the World : Council Book

Cheerleader’s Guide to the World : Council Book

Stacy Doris

Copyright © 2006 by Stacy Doris

ISBN: 1-931824-18-5

Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 2006921661

Cover art: Venus Table from The Grolier Codex (13th c. Mayan) Originally published in The Maya Scribe and His World by Michael Coe, 1973. (The Grolier Club, New York)

Author photo by Chet Wiener

Football plays by Bill Baker

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Cheerleader’s Guide to the World : Council Book

Concentrating on my life’s work about Money-Love-Writing (how they’re the same fault) which involves Ancient Greek and Arabic metrics, I got to thinking of Pindar as a cheerleader so I started writing this which I thought would be part of that but it isn’t really. Plus living here now in the West which means going to Central America to swim as often as possible, I started considering Mesoamerican time and its ballgames which bring me to our own.

N0t Righ+ N0w is based on the name of one of the grandfathers and fathers of the four great houses of the Lord Quichés in the Popol Vuh. I cast them as football triplets.

The leader is Laugh1ng M1rrors Puk1ng, short for Love Money Poetry.

I rearranged the word culture to cultrue

and field, filled, filed are interchangeable.

There are