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. / And there was bloom..
And it was late.
Letter by letter.
Little by little.
Luck and leap.
And lake. // Lapse.
If let there be enabled light, it released every other sublime liquid, for then also there was lie.
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.
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.
She surveys a cosmic crossroads, the sluices of heaven wording as we [stand] in that great rushing wind within, yet without name, turning.
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
