There is always tension in women's gymnastics between athleticism, grace, performance, and eros.

Many grievers experience intense yearning or longing after a death - more than they experience, say, denial.

What's endlessly complicated in thinking about women's gymnastics is the way that vulnerability and power are threaded through the sport.

A mother is a story with no beginning. That is what defines her.

If the condition of grief is nearly universal, its transactions are exquisitely personal.

Sometimes you don't even know what you want until you find out you can't have it.

With ferocity and extraordinary craft, Lizzie Harris has made a book of poems that resonates far beyond the personal stories it tells. Stop Wanting reveals, in every lyric, its author's profound metaphorical gifts. In its ironies and intensities, it brings to mind a writer like the young Sylvia Plath, though what is startling about Harris' s work is the way it combines those gifts with a muted, deft self-awareness. Most of all, these are wonderfully shaped, powerful, and surprising poems-a startling debut.