Killing Plato

By Chantal Maillard

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 Jes?s 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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0811228991
• ISBN13: 9780811228992
• Release Date: November 2019
• Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
• Length: 64 Pages
• Weight: 0.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.9" x 8.8"