{"product_id":"killing-plato-by-chantal-maillard-9780811228992","title":"Killing Plato","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe two sequences of this book form a braided \u003cem\u003ears poetica\u003c\/em\u003e: \u003cem\u003eKilling Plato\u003c\/em\u003e and \"Writing.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe 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 Jesus Aguado.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAt the bottom of the page another tale unfolds: a woman bumps into an old friend, a male poet who has written a book called \u003cem\u003eKilling Plato\u003c\/em\u003e about “a woman who has been knocked over by the force of a sound.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Writing,\" the second part, unfolds as a lyrical meditation on mortality and literary production.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47471059370220,"sku":"9780811228992","price":22.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780811228992-killing-plato.jpg?v=1775231648","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/killing-plato-by-chantal-maillard-9780811228992","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}