Self and Simulacra

by Waldner, Liz

• ISBN13: 9781882295326
• ISBN10: 1882295323
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-10-01
• Publisher: Alice James Books

Summary

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 plummeting deeper and deeper with each book into the questions of self, sexuality, and knowing" --Gillian Conoley.

Table of Contents

Gray	i
Off Course: Ineffable	3	(1)
The Course of True Love (to die Manner born)	4	(1)
Duty Again and Again Desire (finish work)	5	(1)
Indeterminate Inflorescence: Flower Press	6	(1)
The Unmourning Water of the Writing Pen	7	(1)
Vernation	8	(1)
Bisection (cheering, vivi-)	9	(1)
Vegetable History: Red-neck, Queer	10	(1)
Determinate Inflorescence: Ephemera	11	(1)
Cleave vs. Cleave, occasion for a little play	12	(1)
Is This How to Conduct a Life?	13	(2)
Poor Cotyledon	15	(1)
On First Looking Into Gray's Botany	16
Last Supper First	16
I'm a Bit Transformed (chalk-full)	18
The First of Time	19
In So Dismal a Calamity	22
Style II	23
How, Now	25
What Is True in a General Way	26
Nor Any Other ``Instrument Submerged''	27
A: Of Vegetation in General	28
B: Catalogue Raisone	28
Rabe:	30