Santana Cintia Santana

Disordered Alphabet (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Cintia Santana's virtuoso debut collection, The Disordered Alphabet, reckons with the emotional anarchy of our lives, baring the difficulty of wrestling experience into language. She surveys a cosmic crossroads, "e;the sluices of heaven wording as we [stand] in that great rushing wind within, yet without name, turning."e; These poems pay homage to inherited forms while fashioning their own shapes - Santana writes in alliterative verse, in footnotes, in epistles to consonants and vowels, in ekphrasis, in thrall. Ranging from A to Z in style, subject, and mood, Santana's poetic encyclopedia chronicles life's ubiquitous elegies alongside the world's innumerable wonders - true to jumbled experience, they arrive in no particular order, or in the particular order of all the time and all at once. If "e;let there be"e; enabled light, it released every other sublime liquid, for then also "e;there was lie. // Lapse. And lake. Luck and leap. Little by little. Letter by letter. And it was late. / And there was bloom."e;

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Four Way Books
• Seitenzahl: 112
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. September 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781954245631
• Artikelnr.: 69003653

Autorenporträt

Cintia Santana teaches fiction and poetry workshops in Spanish, as well as literary translation courses at Stanford University. Her work has appeared in Best New Poets 2016 and 2020, Beloit Poetry Journal, Guernica, The Iowa Review, Kenyon Review, The Missouri Review, Narrative, Pleiades, Poetry Northwest, The Threepenny Review, West Branch, and elsewhere. Santana's work has been supported by CantoMundo and the Djerassi Resident Artists Program. She lives in Northern California.