Deals with a weather report from middle age. In this book, the author discovers his bisexuality in a heterosexual marriage of long standing passion, responds to war in the Middle East and the deaths and illnesses of friends, and gives an eyewitness account of what is lost and what's saved when a tornado touches down.
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Deals with a weather report from middle age. In this book, the author discovers his bisexuality in a heterosexual marriage of long standing passion, responds to war in the Middle East and the deaths and illnesses of friends, and gives an eyewitness account of what is lost and what's saved when a tornado touches down.
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Through Platt's trademark of alternating long and short lines, and through occasional lyric prose, Tornadoesque becomes a weather report from middle age, as the poet discovers his bisexuality in a heterosexual marriage of longstanding passion, responds to war in the Middle East and the deaths and illnesses of friends, and gives an eyewitness account of what is lost and what's saved when a tornado touches down.
Critic Reviews
“"Tornadoesque whirls with powerful and challenging images, always refusing to turn away from the unsettling while also refusing to treat those images as snapshots that can be experienced in isolation, outside of the intricacies of human desire and history. Donald Platt confronts with great honesty and frankness the complexities of being a son, husband, and father within a world whose layers have been shaped by the visions of religion, politics, art, and dream. The scope of this collection is dazzling; each poem is both tapestry and journey."”
"Don Platt's poems in this new book are scintillatingly beautiful and scintillatingly honest. With great mercy, and great respect for life, Tornadoesque opens a window on our most basic human situation: crucifixion; misfit; the soul caught up on the world like an awkward cross."--Tony Hoagland
--Mary Szybist
About the Author
DONALD PLATT has published four previous books of poetry, Dirt Angels, My Father Says Grace, Cloud Atlas, and Fresh Peaches, Fireworks, & Guns. He has been awarded two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and three Pushcart Prizes. His poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, New Republic, Poetry, Paris Review, Kenyon Review, Georgia Review, Southwest Review, Ploughshares, Iowa Review, and Southern Review, as well as in three editions of The Best American Poetry. He teaches in the MFA program at Purdue University.
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