Do yourself a favor and buy this book. I mean this in the same way as "I did myself a favor and had a massage". It is easy to love and be in love with this author. She strips edifices without pounding the table. She undresses, dresses and then re-dresses subjects with grace inflicting no harm but allowing the reader to walk away with a new appreciation of the complexity of the most simple of things. I object to the description above of Ms. Waldner as a "smarty pants" because that implies that she gets ..
Liz Waldner, A Point Is That Which Has No Part (University of Iowa, 2000)After my last jaunt into the land of Liz Waldner, I was looking her work up on the Internet to research the review, and most of what I was finding on line seemed quite superior to the work in the volume I'd just completed. So I gave her another shot, and what came out of the library system's game of chance was this collection of prose with a few poems scattered through. While much of the work turns on the same punning as that in Etym(b..