The two sequences of this book form a braided ars poetica: hdquo;Killing Plato dquo; and tdquo;Writing.idquo; 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 appearndash;the philosopher Michel Serres, Robert Musil, a woman smoothing out her stocking, the truck driver, a boy on a balcony, the Spanish poet Jesus 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 Killing Plato about edquo;a woman who has been knocked over by the force of a sound. dquo; odquo;Writing,mdquo; the second part, unfolds as a lyrical meditation on mortality and literary production.
