{"product_id":"some-alphabets-9781946328335","title":"Some Alphabets","description":"\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Agincourt Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/19\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781946328335\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 157\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.55lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.64w x 0.43d","brand":"John Latta","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52982962946229,"sku":"9781946328335","price":15.73,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/9781946328335.jpg?v=1787062451","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/some-alphabets-9781946328335","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}