{"product_id":"john-latta-some-alphabets-9781946328335","title":"Some Alphabets","description":"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","brand":"Agincourt Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53712990994774,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0925\/5829\/5382\/files\/product_image_9781946328335_1.jpg?v=1778874190","url":"https:\/\/www.momoxbooks.com\/products\/john-latta-some-alphabets-9781946328335","provider":"momoxbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}