Name: Killing Plato (New Directions Poetry Pamphlet)
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Author: Chantal Maillard
ISBN: 9780811228992

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Killing Plato (New Directions Poetry Pamphlet)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Chantal Maillard

Translated by

Yvette Siegert

Publisher

New Directions Publishing Corporation

Year

2019

Language

English

Pages

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

22.4 x 15.0 x 1.0 cm

Weight

0.09 kg.

ISBN13

9780811228992

Edition No.

Synopsis "Killing Plato (New Directions Poetry Pamphlet) "

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.

Chantal Maillard

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Chantal Maillard (Brussels, 1951) has been living in Málaga since 1963 and, currently, also spends long periods in Barcelona. With a PhD in philosophy and a full professor of aesthetics and theory of the arts, she taught at the University of Málaga until 2001. She lived in Varanasi, where she specialized in Indian philosophy and religions. She is the author of Indian Diaries and Spindles, as well as numerous essays, including Against Art, the most recent. Considered "one of the most intense, honest, and radical poetic voices of the current scene" (M.L. Blanco, El País), as a poet she has published, among others, the volumes Poems to My Death (1994, Santa Cruz de La Palma Award), Spells (2001), Fuzzy Logic (2002) and, in this same collection, Killing Plato (Marginales 218), which won the National Poetry Award 2004, and Threads followed by Which (Marginales 243), which deserved the Andalusia Critics Award and the National Critics Award in 2007, Hainuwele and Other Poems (2009, Ricardo Molina Award in its 1990 version), The Wound in the Tongue (2015), Which Diminishing (2018) and Medea (2020).

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