rife Poems Author:Stefanie Marlis In her second collection of poetry, Stefanie Marlis reveals a mind remarkably equipped for the world's abundant variety. She considers a dizzying array of stimuli including skunks, luckless moths, tumors, planets, and sugar, as well as words themselves. With rapt attention, Marlis makes explicit the importance of each part to the whole: "And e... more »ach character strikes the page like a bell, and dwells there-an inked figure buried, burrowing in the white earth. Here, give me your finger,"these poems seem to say, "fell the halo around each letter."« less