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Some Alphabets

By John Latta

Some Alphabets Poetry

Some Alphabets

By John Latta

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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
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
160
Release Date:
2022-09-23
Publication Date:
2024-10-19
Publisher:
Agincourt Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1946328332
ISBN13:
9781946328335
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
221 g
Height:
140 cm
Width:
203 cm
Thickness:
10 cm
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