Man Praying

by Donald Platt

Overview

In his sixth book, Donald Platt starts a poem by exclaiming, “The days are one thousand / puzzle pieces.” He gathers up the days into this book of terrors and ecstasies decanted in seamlessly reversing tercets of long and short lines, syllabic couplets, and lyric prose.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781602358829
Publisher:	Parlor Press, LLC
Publication date:	07/31/2017
Series:	Free Verse Editions
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	124
File size:	4 MB

About the Author

Donald Platt is the author of six volumes of poetry. In addition to Man Praying, these books include Tornadoesque, Dirt Angels, My Father Says Grace, Cloud Atlas, and Fresh Peaches, Fireworks,&Guns. His poems have appeared in The New Republic, American Poetry Review, Poetry, Paris Review, Kenyon Review, Georgia Review, Southwest Review, Ploughshares, Southern Review, Iowa Review, and Yale Review, as well as many other national journals. He is a recipient of two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and three Pushcart Prizes. Three of his poems have been anthologized in The Best American Poetry series. He teaches in the MFA program at Purdue University.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Eurydice in Hell

Every Touch

Offering Red

Die Krüppelmappe

Caravaggio’s Beheading of St. John the Baptist

The Main Event

Frozen Assets

23 Quai de Voltaire

Christ’s Entry into Brussels in 1889

One Page Torn from the Book of the Names of the Dead

La Playa los Muertos

Lighthouse Digest Doomsday List

Playing Badminton with Eleanor

Aubade with Foley Catheter

Like Jacob at Peniel

Fugitive Pigment

The Davydov

Notes

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