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Killing Plato

Killing Plato

Maillard, Chantal
Siegert, Yvette

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ISBN10: 0811228991
ISBN13: 9780811228992
Publisher: New Directions
Published: Nov 26 2019
Pages: 64
Weight: 0.20
Height: 0.40 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.80
Language: English
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.

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