Killing Plato, Paperback by Maillard, Chantal; Siegert, Yvette (TRN), Like Ne...
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Killing Plato, Paperback by Maillard, Chantal; Siegert, Yvette (TRN), Like Ne.... Killing Plato, Paperback by Maillard, Chantal; Siegert, Yvette (TRN), ISBN 0811228991, ISBN-13 9780811228992, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US "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 Jesâus 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"--
