Poetry. "Liz Waldner's subject in ETYM(BI)OLOGY is fascinating...truncating the sentences, she's dropping what's said or thought for us, an abandoning which has been left out by all discourses. Her use of the word 'or' ('erotization or erasure') leaves huge gaps between any subject and any approach to it. It's a 'not supplying' that creates a different sense-this can't be approximated by any discourse."-Leslie Scalapino. Liz Waldner is the author of SELF AND SIMULACRA, also available at SPD. Her book A Point Is That Which Has No Part (2000) won the 2000 James Laughlin Award, perhaps the most prestigious awards for a second book of poetry in the U.S.

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Liz Waldner was born in Cleveland, Ohio, and raised in rural Mississippi. She received a BA in philosophy and mathematics from St. John's College. She is the author of TRUST (Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 2009); SAVING THE APPEARANCES (Ahsahta Press, 2004); Dark Would (the missing person) (University of Georgia Press) winner of the 2002 Contemporary Poetry Series; ETYM(BI)OLOGY (Omnidawn Press, 2002); SELF AND SIMULACRA (2001), winner of the Alice James Books Beatrice Hawley Prize; A Point Is That Which Has No Part (2000), which received the 2000 James Laughlin Award and the 1999 Iowa Poetry Prize; and HOMING DEVICES (1998). Her poetry has appeared in journals such as Colorado Review, DENVER QUARTERLY, NEW AMERICAN WRITING, Ploughshares, and VOLT. Her awards include grants from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, the Boomerang Foundation, and the Barbara Deming Memorial Money for Women Fund. She has also received fellowships from the Vermont Studio Center, the Djerassi Foundation, and the MacDowell Colony.

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