Killing Plato

Chantal Maillard author Yvette Siegert translator

Format:Paperback

Publisher:New Directions Publishing Corporation

Published:24th Dec '19

Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back

Killing Plato cover

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.

ISBN: 9780811228992

Dimensions: 226mm x 152mm x 8mm

Weight: 114g

64 pages