Saturday, April 22, 2023

Some Alphabets Review at Colorado Review

Here’s a brief snippet out of a review by Shannon K. Winston of Some Alphabets up at Colorado Review:

Latta’s poems are simultaneously playful and cerebral, joyful and contemplative. Language, and more specifically the sense (and nonsense) of writing in language, is one of the collection’s themes. For example, in “Poetry,” the speaker meditates on the writing process by explaining: “We get to its end / By beginning some other thing.” Here, writing is depicted as nonlinear and cyclical. In the poem “Bent,” writing is sly and elusive as its speaker takes on “the formal ruses of / The sentence.” In “Contempt,” language becomes the protagonist of its own story—in the speaker’s words, “The motion between two lexicons / Is narrative.”
Read the complete review here.

Saturday, February 11, 2023

A Short Interview & Three Poems

Here’s a short interview about Some Alphabets (Agincourt Press, 2022) conducted by Ruth Park, a student at Colby College in Waterville, Maine:



And three poems out of the book: “Cordial,” “Xenolithic,” and “Promontory and Clove.” (Go to full screen to read along.)




“Cordial”


“Xenolithic”


“Promontory and Clove”

The book is available here at SPD.