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Some Alphabets
Paperback
Publisher Price: $18.50
ISBN13: 9781946328335
Publisher: Agincourt Press
Published: Oct 19 2024
Pages: 157
Weight: 0.55
Height: 0.43 Width: 5.64 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
It's in the gnarled wonders of its diction that John Latta's poetry has its most immediate charm. The 130 poems of Some Alphabets fizz between levels of diction-the demotic, the formal, the high theoretical, the archaic, the futuristic, the expansive, the pinched, the ordinary and the just plain weird-so that every sixteen-line stanza becomes a foray into the delightful unexpected.
Latta has always had a way with words, a kind of weighty insouciance everywhere evident in Rubbing Torsos and Breeze, his previous collections: the ability to spin out simultaneously concrete sensual observation, off-handed bon mot, and penetrating insight. Some Alphabets focuses that linguistic multi-tasking to an abbreviated, impacted pitch, and stirs into the mix a dark and glittering compost of sixteenth-and seventeenth-century language. . . . Stubbled profligate, I / Paw th'ancients, who paw me.
-Mark Scroggins, from the Introduction
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