{"product_id":"killing-plato-paperback","title":"Killing Plato - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eChantal Maillard\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eYvette Siegert\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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 \u003cem\u003eKilling Plato\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 64\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.4 x 8.8 x 5.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 26, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42174923997319,"sku":"9780811228992","price":11.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/a80413ac43db9e11fe72835dce572fc6.webp?v=1733377899","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/killing-plato-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}