Plato's breath / by Randall R. Freisinger.

• Superior document: May Swenson Poetry Award series
• Author: Freisinger, Randall R., 1942-
• Place / Publishing House: Logan, Utah : : Utah State University Press,, 1997.; ©1997.
• Year of Publication: 1997
• Language: English
• Series: May Swenson Poetry Award series.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (82 pages) :; digital, PDF file(s).
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

From the opening poem, Freisinger conducts an inquiry into the "fledging of souls" ... It is rare these days to find in American poetry any interest in metaphysics. But in Plato's Breath, even the Kirby man, a vacuum cleaner salesman, wrangles with big questions, though Freisinger is under no illusion that he can "trap the immensities of the moment" or infinity.

Table of Contents

Contents -- Foreword by Herbert Leibowitz -- ONE -- Saved -- Supply, Demand -- After Reading Wordsworth's Prelude, Book I; Antediluvian: Kansas City, Summer, 1953 -- Shop Class, 1955 -- Thirty-Fifth Bombing Mission, Cerignola, Italy -- Stopping to Dance -- Catalog People -- First Fantasy -- Spring Burial -- Hints for Dissection: Gray's Anatomy -- Plato's Breath -- TWO -- In Front of A Small Town Radio Statio -- Miscarriage: Goose Bay, Labrador -- Missouri Voices -- Stalking Prairie: Madison, South Dakota; The Kirty Man; The Cat in the Hat: A Sequel; Dead Language; The Psychological Present; Aphasia: The Breakdown of Language

The Woman in BlueStory Fragment in Snow; THREE; Door Hanging; Sperm Test; Winter Storm; Thoughts on a Child's Nose Swallowed by A Dog; Banking; Shit Happens; Game of Touch; Walt Whitman At Timber Creek; Killer Hold; The Catch; Acknowledgments; About the Author; About the May Swenson Poetry Award