{"product_id":"swansdown-paperback","title":"Swansdown - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDonald Platt\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eDanielle Jacqui\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eSwansdown\u003c\/i\u003e, Donald Platt makes a study of life's inevitable transitions, from love's astonishing evolutions, to aging and its attendant losses. With the poem \" Cloud Study\" Platt brings his own mortality into view. Returning to a painting by Constable, he considers his own perspective, sitting by the Liffey, tending an injured knee. Young mothers, lovers, and runners pass, reminding the poet of who he once was and how quickly life, like weather, shifts. \" Two minutes later, \/\/ The clouds would have taken on a different cast of light and shape \/ just like the thunderheads \/ now piling up above the Liffey.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003ePlatt advises: \" To approach old age, one needs a new harsher style.\" And yet these poems are proof of the softness that may follow life's harshest reckonings, like the wisps of hair on his beloved brother's head as he lies dying, \" fine \/ as milkweed silk. \/ His head a split \/ dried pod whose seeds \/ wind will scatter.\" The poems of Swansdown point us to a \" larger landscape,\" they are the clouds \" that scud across the blue escutcheon of sky. . . Sun's blazon through rain rampant.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDonald Platt\u003c\/b\u003e has published eight books of poetry, including \u003ci\u003eSwansdown\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the 2022 Off the Grid Poetry Prize, \u003ci\u003eOne Illuminated Letter of Being\u003c\/i\u003e (Red Mountain Press, 2020), \u003ci\u003eMan Praying\u003c\/i\u003e (Free Verse Editions \/ Parlor Press, 2017), and \u003ci\u003eTornadoesque\u003c\/i\u003e (CavanKerry Press, 2016). Platt's poems have appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe New Republic\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNation\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePoetry\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eYale Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAmerican Poetry Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eKenyon Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePloughshares\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eParis Review\u003c\/i\u003e as well as in \u003ci\u003eThe Best American Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e 2000, 2006, and 2015. He is a recipient of two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts (1996 and 2011) and three Pushcart Prizes and he teaches in Purdue University's MFA Program.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 104\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 9.9 x 6.8 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 11, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51881654059296,"sku":"9781946830159","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/XNSFqWHPG69781946830159.webp?v=1781829171","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/swansdown-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}