Dark Would (the Missing Person)

Further Locales Liz Waldner's irrepressibly odd lyric sequences leap from Steinian abstraction to sexual comedy in the space of a pun or the dash between parts of a sentence. Readers who found her Self and Simulacra too artificial should prick up their ears for her far superior third, Dark Would (the missing person). Walder dramatizes her fascination with fragments, impenetrabilities and Renaissance science (e.g., Galileo) not just with fireworks of diction or verbal rambles, but with well-constructed couplets and sentences about the fractured psyche: ""I favor impossibility and the fragrance of might but couldn't be."" (June)