Donald platt
Donald Platt has published eight books of poetry, including Swansdown, winner of the 2022 Off the Grid Poetry Prize, One Illuminated Letter of Being (Red Mountain Press, 2020), Man Praying (Free Verse Editions / Parlor Press, 2017), and Tornadoesque (CavanKerry Press, 2016).
Platt’s poems have appeared in The New Republic, Nation, Poetry, Yale Review, American Poetry Review, Kenyon Review, Georgia Review, Ploughshares, Southwest Review, Tin House, Iowa Review, Southern Review, and Paris Review as well as in The Best American Poetry 2000, 2006, and 2015. He is a recipient of two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts (1996 and 2011) and three Pushcart Prizes and he teaches in Purdue University’s MFA Program.
Praise for Swansdown
“In Swansdown, we see Platt at his most vulnerable, navigating the inevitable slowdowns of aging—illnesses, nostalgias, and the impossible loss of family and friends. All the while, these elegant poems render the world in bountiful technicolor, finding beauty everywhere: in sparrows doing their busywork, the resilience of star magnolias, and Joan Miró’s surrealism. “What have I to show for six decades,” the poet asks and answers with the immaculate imagery and sonorousness that have always been hallmarks of his work. Swansdown is as much a testament to Platt’s humanism as it is to his brilliance in verse.”
Swansdown
$17.00
