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Liz Waldner's poems are emotive explorations into the personal, social, and political nature of speech.

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Poetry. Liz Waldner's second book, A POINT IS THAT WHICH HAS NO PART, won the Iowa Poetry Prize and the Academy of American Poets Laughlin Prize. Now, in her third book, Waldner again provides evidence of her remarkable ear and intelligence, focusing on the problematics (as the title implies) of SELF AND SIMULACRA. "Liz Waldner is a poet of high wit, high intelligence, and great musical rigor--she may be our Postmodern Metaphysical poet plumme...

A philosophical, tough, and often funny inquiry into twenty-first-century selfhood, Liz Waldner's new collection of poems takes shape in the shadow of Dante's "dark wood." "Dark Would (the missing person)" is quirky. It's audaciously American, out of the Dickinson house. Waldner uses short, quick syntactical units that swerve rather than build up an architecture of ideas through sequential juxtaposition. She also has, like Dickinson, a canny, ...

Liz Waldner's bold new collection takes its title and its inspiration from Definition 1 of Euclid's Elements of Geometry. Its six sections -- point, line, circle, square, triangle, and point again -- are explorations of various kinds of longing and loss -- sex, death, exile, story, love, and time. Drawing from culture high and low -- Eno and Aquinas, Lassie and Donne, Silicon Valley and Walden Pond -- these poems offer proof of and proof again...