Fresh Peaches, Fireworks, and Guns

by Donald Platt

"Language, not / geography / is where we live," says the insomniac poet at 4:00 A.M., flipping through all the different stations - grand opera, pop, and punk rock - on his radio. In the listening area that is this first collection of poems, Donald Platt tunes in the dissonances of his own and others' lives. Whatever their occasions, stopping at a roadside fruit stand in Georgia, a retarded brother learning to speak, childhood on a midwestern farm,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1557530483
• ISBN13: 9781557530486
• Release Date: June 1994
• Publisher: Purdue University Press
• Length: 86 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 8.5" x 6.5"