Killing Plato

The two sequences of this book form a braided ars poetica: "Killing Plato" and "Writing." The first is a numbered sequence of twenty-eight poems organized around an accident: a pedestrian has been hit by a truck and is dying in the middle of the road. Various characters appear--the philosopher Michel Serres, Robert Musil, a woman smoothing out her stocking, the truck driver, a boy on a balcony, the Spanish poet Jesús Aguado. At the bottom of the page another tale unfolds: a woman bumps into an old friend, a male poet who has written a book called Killing Plato about "a woman who has been knocked over by the force of a sound." "Writing," the second part, unfolds as a lyrical meditation on mortality and literary production.

Author: Chantal Maillard
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Published: 11/26/2019
Pages: 64
Weight: 0.2lbs
Size: 8.80h x 5.90w x 0.40d
ISBN: 9780811228992