Disordered Alphabet

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;