Isola di Rifiuti

Notes, Poetics, Trouvailles, Photographs, Malarkey, & Guff.
John Latta is the author of Breeze (University of Notre Dame Press, 2003) and Rubbing Torsos (Ithaca House, 1979).
E-mail: lattaj@umich.edu

Saturday, April 22, 2023

Some Alphabets Review at Colorado Review

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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 pla...

Saturday, February 11, 2023

A Short Interview & Three Poems

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

Friday, September 30, 2022

Announcing My New Book Some Alphabets

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Pleased to announce the publication of my new book, Some Alphabets, just out in the Opuntia Books series of Agincourt Press . It is av...

Thursday, November 12, 2015

“The Universal Screech”

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A prescient snip out of Paula Fox’s excellent novel, The Widow’s Children (1976): He no longer liked to read. The sight of a printed page ...

Monday, December 08, 2014

Stray Notes (Walking)

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Out of yesterday’s tramp. Twenty acres of turnips gone unharvested, rotting in the earth: their local cloying stench unbuffeted by the bree...

Tuesday, November 25, 2014

Stray Notes (Patrick O’Brian, Thomas Pynchon, &c.)

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Patrick O’Brian, 1914-2000 Reading, of late, with something akin to preternatural joy and astonishment, the “Yarn-Spinner” Patrick O’Brian...

Friday, November 21, 2014

Stray Notes (Cy Twombly, John Berger, &c.)

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Cy Twombly, 1928-2011 Cy Twombly, out of David Sylvester’s Interviews with American Artists (2001): . . . It’s a sort of infantile thing,...

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