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A Point Is Which Has No Part.
Title:
A Point Is Which Has No Part.
Author:
Waldner, Liz.
ISBN:
9781587298080
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (84 pages)
Series:
Iowa Poetry Prize
Contents:
Contents -- I. Point -- Accord -- II. Line -- Straight Flush -- Where Credit Is Due (Do You Know the Way to San Jose?) -- Ear Rational (watercourse for tongues of flame) -- Sun Dial -- Mapper of (Possible) Fact -- Of Unknowing Again -- III. Circle -- Hand to Mouth (Twist and Shout) -- Her First Reckoning -- Self-Representation -- The Tree-Keeper's Daughter Speaks -- The Alchemist's Misfortune -- Maundy Thursday in Translation -- Au Pair a green -- Transitive, Intransitive: Extemporary Measures -- Fear and Suckling and the Mirroring unto Death -- Where, Broken (the darkness -- is named) Orpheus -- IV. Square -- A Very BigWind -- Talented and Gifted -- Mission Control -- Housewife's Lament -- Everything But -- This Is Not Normal Movements of the Animal Kingdom -- Trading Little Trinkets with the Gods -- Welling -- Flight Path of Real Desires (my sister visits on the astral plane) -- Postcard: To my amaze -- The Laundress Maunders II -- Wednesday Morning Pray Time -- Fur Bowser -- The Dinner Date -- Boom Profits of Doom -- ''Under the Tinsel There Is the Real Tinsel,'' -- V. Triangle -- But When the Representation Does Not Do Justice to the Thought, the Meaning Is Unpleasant -- Wants to Sit in the Big Chair. Does -- Dialogum -- The New Age -- A Calculus of Readiness -- Chez Poetess -- The Upper Class -- High Culture -- Misses Coordinates (old world mail order) -- The Scientific Method -- Radioactive Assay and Epitaph (Indian School) -- Witness -- VI. Point -- Sufficient Causes and Artifacts.
Abstract:
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 against the "mortal right-lined circle" of memory and identity.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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