Ponder, wonder, wander. The river Lysander. Today's a meander. There's a playfulness to the rush, an exuberance that seems always about to burst. In this case, it's often a deep engagement with sound that accentuates the physical aspect of the word.
Every word points in several directions.
We must grapple with language to get it to work for us. Waldner further mitigates language' s control with puns, which by foregrounding the multiplicitous nature of words imply that language can never be truly stable because a sound cannot have a fixed meaning. Suzanne Wise also has a highly refined sense of sound, though she deploys it with a passionate restraint. Everything that has survived is in rehearsal. In fact, both books ride this edge of explosion and emanate a sense of impending apocalypse.