Dirt Angels (New Issues Poetry & Prose) - Softcover

"Using motifs such as concrete, mirrors, and yes, dirt, Platt walks the path from catastrophe to cohesion, demonstrating how lives can be broken yet redeemed through reflection, humility, and responsibility."--Jill McCabe Johnson "Prairie Schooner"

Poetry. "Donald Platt's aptly titled and arresting fourth collection of poems, DIRT ANGELS, examines how we exist in states of physical disrepair, decay, and disability: the world's transience exhibited in the slow degradation of our very consciousness and flesh. And yet this awareness should not incapacitate us, Platt suggests; rather, it should further disarm us to the fleeting charms that make up a life: the corruptible beauty in the bodies of our children and loved ones, the ways language itself haphazardly'cross-pollinate[s], misspoken and misheard' and yet still blossoms. DIRT ANGELS offers its readers resolute, if embattled, joyfulness through Platt's gorgeous language: itself a sinuous vocabulary of praise even in the face of mishap and pain"---Paisley Rekdal.