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Some Alphabets

Some Alphabets - Paperback

by John Latta
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Availability:In StockContributor:John Latta, Mark ScrogginsPublish date:10/19/2024Pages:157
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Agincourt PressISBN-13:9781946328335ISBN-10:1946328332UPC:9781946328335Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:AmericanSize:8.00 x 5.64 x 0.43 inchesWeight:0.25Product ID:SCY755JFP8

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

Languages:EnglishPublisher:Agincourt PressISBN-13:9781946328335ISBN-10:1946328332UPC:9781946328335Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:AmericanSize:8.00 x 5.64 x 0.43 inchesWeight:0.25Product ID:SCY755JFP8
Latta, John: - Born in 1954 in Willow Run, Michigan, John Latta spent early childhood in the Pigeon River Country of northern lower Michigan, and later attended high school in Ann Arbor. He was educated at Cornell University (A.B.), the University of Virginia (M.F.A.), and SUNY at Albany (Ph.D.). Since 1997 Latta has worked in Hatcher Graduate Library at the University of Michigan, in a variety of positions. Latta's first collection, Rubbing Torsos, was published by Ithaca House in 1979. A second collection, Breeze, won the Ernest Sandeen Prize in Poetry (selected by John Matthias) and was published in 2003 by the University of Notre Dame Press. Between 2006 and 2014 Latta kept a lively blog called Isola di Rifiuti.
Publisher: Agincourt Press

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John Latta, Mark Scroggins

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