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.
"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
"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."--Mary Szybist
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