Poetry. TROUBAIRITZ is a journalistic love poem, a "book of hours," written over a span of 49 days, thus it captures the notion of the Tibetan Buddhist "bardo" with its shifting psychological states, "luminous" details and illusory figments of dream. Troubairitz is the female troubadour, the traveler and passionate songstress who dwells in the gap or bardo between death & desire. There is fire in the mouth of this poem.