A Point Is That Which Has No Part (Iowa Poetry Prize) - Softcover

Waldner, Liz

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0877457026 ISBN 13: 9780877457022

Publisher: University Of Iowa Press, 2000

Synopsis

This collection of poems explores various kinds of longing and loss - sex, death, exile, story, love, and time. These poems draw from culture, both high and low - Eno and Aquinas, Lassie and Donne, Silicon Valley and Walden Pond.

About this title

About the Author:

Liz Waldner's first book of poems was Homing Devices.

Review:

"Audacious and dazzling, Waldner is a defiant strategist, a 'Mapper of (Possible) Fact,' a femme fatale of the spoken (as written) word. A serious, silly shilly-shallier bent on demonstrating language as the 'future's suture's revenue--the shining hour improved,' she is that rare poet in any era--the daring (darling) smarty-pants we giddily follow into the water (as well as to all other wheres). A Point Is That Which Has No Part provides a permanent pause and unrepentant delight." -- Mary Jo Bang

"The elegance and passion which gleams from the pages of Liz Waldner's collection is unlike any other poetry being written now, but is also and oddly like much that is being thought in various other fields-this is a book about strangeness, the making strange of the vision so that Truth will reveal itself. . . . The music of the mind is brought into congruence with the music of the page, of the arbitrary but beautiful and delicate words themselves--and the sense is left to fend for itself." -- Bin Ramke

Accord
The Alchemist's Misfortune
Au Pair A Green
Boom Profits Of Doom
But When The Representation Does Not Do Justice To The Thought, The
A Calculus Of Readiness
Chez Poetess
Dialogum
The Dinner Date
Eat Rational: Watercourse For Tongues Of Flame
Everything But
Fear And Suckling And The Mirroring Unto Death
Flight Path Of Real Desires: My Sister Visits On The Astral Plane
Fur Bowser
Hand To Mouth: Twist And Shout
Her First Reckoning
High Culture
Housewife's Lament
Is Named) Orpheus
The Laundress Maunders Ii
Mapper Of (possible) Fact
Maundy Thursday In Translation
Misses Coordinates: Old World Mail Order
Mission Control
The New Age
Of Unknowing Again
Postcard: To My Amaze
Radioactive Assay And Epitaph: Indian School
The Scientific Method: 1. Notebook
The Scientific Method: 2. Observation
The Scientific Method: 3. Interrogation And Conclusion
Self-representation
Straight Flush
Sufficient Causes And Artifacts
Sun Dial
Talented And Gifted
This Is Not Normal Movements Of The Animal Kingdom
Trading Little Trinkets With The Gods
Transitive, Intransitive: Extemporary Measures
The Tree-keeper's Daughter Speaks
'under The Tinsel There Is The Real Tinsel'
The Upper Class
A Very Big Wind
Wants To Sit In The Big Chair. Does
Wednesday Morning Pray Time
Welling
Where Credit Is Due: Do You Know The Way To San Jose?
Where, Broken (the Darkness
Witness
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

About this edition

• Publisher: University Of Iowa Press
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0877457026
• ISBN 13: 9780877457022
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 88