Plato's Breath

Freisinger's new poetry collection is inhabited alike by bright, tangible images and thoughtful, intricate meditations. Pumpkins, poultry houses, sperm tests, a vacuum cleaner salesman, a father's damaged brain, an anatomist's tools, a baby falling from a fourth-story window-all of th...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Freisinger, Randall (Author)
Corporate Author: Walter de Gruyter & Co
Format: Book
Language:English
Language Notes:English.
Published: [S.l.]: Utah State University Press, 1997.
Series:Swenson Poetry Award.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword by Herbert Leibowitz; ONE; Saved; Supply, Demand; After Reading Wordsworth's Prelude, Book I; Antediluvian: Kansas City, Summer, 1953; Shop Class, 1955; Thirty-Fifth Bombing Mission, Cerignola, Italy; Stopping to Dance; Catalog People; First Fantasy; Spring Burial; Hints for Dissection: Gray's Anatomy; Plato's Breath; TWO; In Front of A Small Town Radio Station; Miscarriage: Goose Bay, Labrador; Missouri Voices; Stalking Prairie: Madison, South Dakota; The Kirby Man; The Cat in the Hat: A Sequel; Dead Language; The Psychological Present; Aphasia: The Breakdown of Language
  • The Woman in BlueStory Fragment in Snow; THREE; Door Hanging; Sperm Test; Winter Storm; Thoughts on a Child's Nose Swallowed by A Dog; Banking; Shit Happens; Game of Touch; Walt Whitman At Timber Creek; Killer Hold; The Catch; Acknowledgments; About the Author; About the May Swenson Poetry Award