Stacey Waite's the lake has no saint is a study in grief -- a work of poetic archaeology that traces the artifacts of the past into the relationships of the present. Embedded in a powerfully modulated sequence addressing a "you" who shifts in location and identity, many of these poems feel like forms of request, imploring. The speaker's androgynous self-awareness -- and wary attention to the gendered assumptions elicited by bodies -- disclose...