Swansdown

Swansdown by Donald Platt Audiobook
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Sounded ID: 9798823431538

ISBN: 9798823431538

Publication Date: November 11, 2022

Publisher: Author's Republic

Language: English

Author Name: Donald Platt

Narrator Name: Donald Platt

Studio Narrated Audiobook 1 hrs 50 mins | POETRY | American

Swansdown

Author
Donald Platt
Publisher
Author's Republic
Narrator
Donald Platt

Studio Narrated Audiobook

This audiobook is a traditionally narrated work produced in a studio with a live voice actor and contains no content generated using Voice Replica technologies or synthetic narration.

In SWANSDOWN, the poet Donald Platt makes a study of lifeís inevitable transitions, from loveís 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 ...

In SWANSDOWN, the poet Donald Platt makes a study of lifeís inevitable transitions, from loveís 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."
"One of the finest American poets working today," writes poet and editor Adrian Matejka, "A writer of unparalleled lyric and formal integrity." It is indeed these qualities that gird Platt for this masterful eighth collection.

Chapters

# Title Duration
1. 01 Opening Credit

0 mins 14 secs

2. Sleep

2 mins 41 secs

3. Earthly Ideas

5 mins 01 secs

4. For My Brother with Trisomy 21 as He Lies Dying

2 mins 31 secs

5. Child's Riddle

1 mins 02 secs

6. Sunset Pavilion

2 mins 29 secs

7. Penelope's Loom

2 mins 05 secs

8. Black Prince

3 mins 05 secs

9. Section II

0 mins 05 secs

10. At Oscar Wilde's Grave, Le Cimetiere du Pere-Lachaise, Paris

12 mins 02 secs

11. Section III

0 mins 06 secs

12. Cloud Study

4 mins 40 secs

13. Existing Tree

2 mins 40 secs

14. Les Frelons

1 mins 57 secs

15. Fire

16 mins 06 secs

16. Star Magnolia

1 mins 47 secs

17. Caddy

5 mins 22 secs

18. Coney Island Avenue

5 mins 46 secs

19. At The Mayo Clinic I Stare at a Wall of Blue Sodalite Marble

4 mins 53 secs

20. Section IV

0 mins 05 secs

21. Stanzas For Anna Akhmatova

3 mins 06 secs

22. Section V

0 mins 05 secs

23. Glyphs

1 mins 00 secs

24. Turning Sixty

4 mins 01 secs

25. Blink

2 mins 26 secs

26. Liu Sheng's Dirge for Dou Wan, 117 BCE

3 mins 33 secs

27. Eros At The YMCA

2 mins 04 secs

28. Flesh Of Their Flesh

4 mins 52 secs

29. Goodbye Dance

2 mins 38 secs

30. North

1 mins 21 secs

31. First Crocuses

5 mins 16 secs

32. 32 Closing Credit

0 mins 26 secs

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