A Point Is That Which Has No Part |
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| Author:
| Waldner, Liz |
| Series title: | Iowa Poetry Prize Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-58729-808-0 |
| Publication Date: | Apr 2000 |
| Publisher: | University of Iowa Press
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| Book Format: | Ebook |
| List Price: | USD $24.00 |
Book Description:
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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.
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.