<strong>Breeze</strong> winner of the 2003 Ernest Sandeen Prize in Poetry exudes a materialand musical sensibility informed as much by the sound of a word as it... » 

Breeze winner of the 2003 Ernest Sandeen Prize in Poetry exudes a materialand musical sensibility informed as much by the sound of a word as it rollsoff the tongue as by the ideas it may trigger. Two beliefs shape these poems.First that attention to language to its sound and vagary is as crucialto writing as attentiveness to the minutiae of the world. Second that languageand the world will always make an uneven fit.In these carefully crafted poems John Latta traces the process of languageattempting to align its measure against the amplitude of the world. His writingrecognizes the futility of representing the world while braving the caprice oftrying to do so. Made of image invention and music the poetry of Breezechallenges and inspires. «