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More copies of this ISBNeBook editionsMy Father Says Grace: Poemsby Donald Platt
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:In his third collection, My Father Says Grace, Donald Platt combines elegy with verse of larger historical allusion and reference. At the center of the book stand poems detailing a fatheras stroke and slowly developing Alzheimeras disease and how it affects one family. An extended meditation on a mother-in-lawas dying provides counterpoint to elegies for more public figures like Walt Whitman and Janis Joplin. The private life in athe valley of the shadow of deatha often gets juxtaposed with explicitly political verse. One of these poems records the racially charged conversations in a small southern townas Amazing Grace Beauty Salon. Another describes a Vietnam protestor, famously photographed while sticking flowers in an MPas gun barrel, alongside images from his later life as a transvestite. The poems tend to find themselves in the midst of crisis, historical or personal. They yearn for atransporta and strive ato be acarried across, a away, out, toward, back into / / some new country / where the soul improvises, croons scat to itself alone.a Synopsis:In his third collection of poems, My Father Says Grace, Donald Platt mixes elegy with larger historical allusion and reference. At the center of the book stand poems detailing a father's stroke and slowly developing Alzheimer's disease and how it affects one family. An elegy for a mother-in-law provides counterpoint to elegies for more public figures like Janis Joplin and Walt Whitman. The private life "in the valley of the shadow of death" often gets crossed with explicitly political poems, such as a meditation on the long history of racial tensions in the deep South, or one on a Vietnam protestor, famously photographed sticking flowers in an MP's gun barrel, alongside images from his later life as a transvestite. What Our Readers Are SayingBe the first to add a comment for a chance to win!Product Details
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