{"product_id":"some-alphabets-paperback","title":"Some Alphabets - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJohn Latta\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eMark Scroggins\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt's in the gnarled wonders of its diction that John Latta's poetry has its most immediate charm. The 130 poems of \u003cem\u003eSome Alphabets\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLatta 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. \u003cem\u003eSome Alphabets\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-Mark Scroggins, from the Introduction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 157\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.43 x 8 x 5.64 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 19, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53377681064243,"sku":"9781946328335","price":25.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/MKMgYRd1fn9781946328335.webp?v=1779326073","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/some-alphabets-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}