Length1h 44m
About this audiobook
In
Swansdown, 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."
Platt 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."
Audiobook details
GenrePoetry
Length1 hr 44 mins
Narrated byDonald Platt
FormatAudiobook
Publish dateJul 5, 2022
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Intro
17Caddy
2Sleep
18Coneyislandavenue
3Earthlyideas
19Atthemayoclinicistaratawallofbluesodalitemarble
4Formybrotherwithtrisomy 21asheliesdying
20Sectioniv
5Childsriddle
21Stanzasforannaakhmatova
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6Sunsetpavilion
22Sectionv
7Penelopesloom
23Glyphs
8Blackprince
24Turningsixty
9Sectionii
25Blink
10Atoscarwildesgravelecimetiereduperelachaiseparis
26Liushengsdirgefordouwan 117bce
11Sectioniii
27Erosattheymca
12Cloudstudy
28Fleshoftheirflesh
13Existingtree
29Goodbyedance
14Lesfrelons
30North
15Fire
31Firstcrocuses
16Starmagnolia
32Outro
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