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"Perceptive and gripping. . . . [Stem is] an impressive series of dramatic monologues. . . As Wong dips in and out of various personae, her biting cleverness remains consistent throughout. These insistent poems achieve a brash and beautiful irreverence."鈥�Publishers Weekly

"Stem is full of colour and candour."鈥擠avid Marx, David Marx Book Reviews

"An energetic and resonant collection."鈥擨an Pople, The Manchester Review

“The poems in this volume demonstrate an extraordinary sensibility, which is imaginative, perceptive, and intrepid. Reading these poems is like riding a verbal roller coaster, full of excitement and surprises.”—Ha Jin, author of The Woman Back from Moscow and A Distant Center

“Stella Wong’s Orpheus is female, and the poet herself a forceful Eurydice who refuses to return to the underground and play dead. She’s a switched-on, savvy, confident, aggressively witty, and get-out-of-the-way poet. American poetry needs her fighting spirit. Nodding to experimental women composers of the ’60s and forward, Wong herself has a taste of the synthesizer’s surrealism. She goes where her uncaptured nature and her powers of observation take her.”—Cal Bedient, author of The Breathing Place