<p>The two sequences of this book form a braided ars poetica: "Killing Plato" and "Writing." 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 appear--the philosopher Michel Serres, Robert Musil, a woman smoothing out her stocking, the truck driver, a boy on a balcony, the Spanish poet Jesús 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 "a woman who has been knocked over by the force of a sound." "Writing," the second part, unfolds as a lyrical meditation on mortality and literary production.</p>

Killing Plato (New Directions Poetry Pamphlet)

Literature & Fiction

Maillard, Chantal

Poetry

New Directions

<p>Literary Nonfiction. Essay. Spanish poet and philosopher Chantal Maillard asks whether a world without violence is possible. Beginning with the tale of Nietzsche's embrace of the Turin horse, and engaging with thinkers from Confucius to Derrida to Sontag, Maillard reflects on how the concept of the "semblable" (one's other, neighbor, peer, fellow) justifies defensive foreign and domestic policy as well as state-sanctioned global violence. Can we broaden our "frameworks of belonging" and replace our narrow group and species-centered morals with an ethics of interspecies compassion? And if we could, given that the natural world cannot be sustained without violence, would it be possible to create change without violence?</p>

The Semblable: Is a World Without Violence Possible?

History & Criticism

Ugly Duckling Presse

Daniel: Voces en duelo. Oficio poético

Bonnett, Piedad

Vaso Roto Ediciones

La baba del caracol (Spanish Edition)

Arts & Photography

La mujer de pie

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

Galaxia Gutenberg, S.L.

La arena entre los dedos: Diarios reunidos

Essays & Correspondence

Editorial Pre-Textos

Las venas del dragón: Confucianismo, taoísmo y budismo

Lo que el pájaro bebe en la fuente y no es el agua: Obra poética reunida 2004-2020

La sabiduría como estética (Historia del pensamiento y la cultura) (Spanish Edition)

History

Americas

Ediciones Akal

La herida en la lengua

Tusquets Editores S.A.

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