Killing Plato

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By Chantal Maillard

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Killing Plato intertwines two poetic sequences that explore themes of mortality and art. The first sequence centres on a tragic accident where a pedestrian is fatally struck by a truck, unfolding through perspectives of various figures including a philosopher, poets, and passersby. Simultaneously, a parallel narrative traces a woman's encounter with an old poet friend who authored a work titled Killing Plato, depicting a woman overwhelmed by the force of sound. The second sequence, Writing, offers a lyrical reflection on death and the creative process.
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This collection is suited to readers interested in contemporary poetry, philosophical musings, and experimental literary forms within the arts and culture sphere.

“I write / / to make the poisoned water / fit to drink.” —Chantal Maillard Longlisted for the PEN Poetry in Translation Award

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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 Jesus 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.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780811228992

Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 26 November 2019

Country: United States

Imprint: New Directions Publishing Corporation

Contributors:

Translated by Yvette Siegert

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 8.0mm

Width: 152.0mm

Height: 226.0mm

Weight: 114g

Pages: 64

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Arts & Culture Chantal Maillard Non-Fiction Poetry

About the Author

Chantal Maillard is a poet, translator (of Henri Michaux, in particular), and essayist (of books on India, Belgium, Chinese philosophy, the aesthetics of María Zambrano, and the slime of the snail). Born in Brussels in 1951, Maillard moved with her family to Spain as a child, and has won both the Premio Nacional de Poesía (for Killing Plato) and the Premio Nacional de la Crítica. The poet Yvette Siegert has also translated The Reef by Juan Villoro and Alejandra Pizarnik’s poetry collections A Musical Hell, Diana’s Tree, and Extracting the Stone of Madness, for which she won the 2017 Best Translated Book Award.