Man Praying

Donald Platt

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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.

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• Publié par: Parlor Press, LLC
• Date de parution: 31 juillet 2017
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781602358829
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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PLATT

MAN PRAYING

MAN PRAYING

DONALD PLAT T

Free Verse Editions Edited by Jon Thompson

Poems

MAN PRAYING

Donald Platt

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Names: Patt, Donad, 1957- author. Tîte: Man prayîng : poems / Donad Patt. Descrîptîon: Anderson, South Caroîna : Paror Press, [2017] | Serîes: Free  verse edîtîons | ïncudes bîbîographîca reerences. ïdentîîers: CCN 2017038742 (prînt) | CCN 2017038931 (ebook) | ïSBN  9781602358829 (pd) | ïSBN 9781602358836 (epub) | ïSBN 9781602358843 (  îbook) | ïSBN 9781602358850 (mobî) | ïSBN 9781602358812 (pbk. : acîd-ree  paper) Cassîîcatîon: CC PS3566.286 (ebook) | CC PS3566.286 A6 2017 (prînt) |  DDC 811/.54--dc23 C record avaîabe at https://ccn.oc.gov/2017038742

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Cover desîgn by Davîd Bakesey. Cover îmage: Chaîm Soutîne,L’Homme en prîère. (The Man în Prayer). 1921-1922. Oî on canvas. 51 x 25 1/2 în. (129.5 x 64.8 cm). Portraît o M. Racîne., oî on canvas, Prîvate Coectîon. © 2017 Estate o Chaîm Soutîne / Artîsts Rîghts Socîety (ARS), New York.” Prînted on acîd-ree paper.

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Acknowledgments ix

Eurydice in Hell 3 Every Touch 6 Offering Red 10 Die Krüppelmappe 27 Caravaggio’sBeheading of St. John the Baptist 33 The Main Event 38 Frozen Assets 43 23 Quai de Voltaire 50 Christ’s Entry into Brussels in 1889 55 One Page Torn from the Book of the Names of the Dead 60 La Playa los Muertos 64 Lighthouse Digest Doomsday List 88 Playing Badminton with Eleanor 93 Aubade with Foley Catheter 96 Like Jacob at Peniel 98 Fugitive Pigment 101 TheDavydov 104

Notes 110 Free Verse Editions 111 About the Author 113

Contents

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for Dana, Eleanor, and Lucy

Acknowledgments

My thanks to the edîtors o the oowîng pubîcatîons în whîch these poems, sometîmes în sîghty dîerent versîons, îrst appeared:

BLOOM:“îke Jacob at Penîe”

Crazyhorse:“îghthouse Dîgest Doomsday îst”

Ecotone:“Eurydîce în He”

Green Mountaîns Revîew: “Chrîst’s Entry înto Brusses în 1889,” “One Page Torn rom the Book o the Names o the Dead” (each eatured as a “poem o the week” on the journa’s websîte)

Gu Coast:“Caravaggîo’sBeheadîng o St. John the Baptîst”

Passages North:“Oerîng Red”

Praîrîe Schooner: “23 Quaî de Votaîre,” “Every Touch”

Seneca Revîew:“Dîe Krüppemappe,” “a Paya os Muertos”

Shenandoah:“TheDavydov”

Southwest Revîew:“The Maîn Event”

Sou’wester:“Aubade wîth Foey Catheter”

VOLT: “Payîng Badmînton wîth Eeanor”

Western Humanîtîes Revîew:“Frozen Assets,” “Fugîtîve Pîgment”

“The Maîn Event” was reprînted înThe Best Amerîcan Poetry 2015(Scrîbner).

ï am grateu to the Natîona Endowment or the Arts or an îndîvîdua artîst’s eowshîp and to Purdue Unîversîty or an Artîstîc Endeavors Feowshîp, both o whîch greaty aîded în the competîon o thîs book. Thanks to Mary eader or oerîng spot-on advîce about some o these poems and to Dana Roeser or her crucîa înput on many o the poems and on the book as a whoe. ï am îndebted to my amîy—Eeanor and ucy Patt and Dana Roeser—or theîr ove and support.