The Latin Poet’s Guide to the Cosmos. By Susannah R. Drissi.

The Latin Poet’s Guide to the Cosmos. By Susannah R. Drissi.  ISBN:13: 9781098619916. $6.95

The Los Angeles Review of Books  just published an amazing review of The Latin Poet's Guide to the Cosmos:

https://blog.lareviewofbooks.org/reviews/begins-unexplored-latin-poets-guide-cosmos

“Seriously playful, sublimely macaronic, SRD’s poems brilliantly explore the intimate geometries of languages in contact. The reader who accepts the challenge will come away from the collection with a renewed understanding of the ways in which our languages anchor us and set us adrift.”

A delightfully choreographed, and ultimately scintillating hoodwink, this extraordinary collection of poetry constitutes a cross-linguistic poetic event in which the correspondence between Romance languages is so close as to approach the condition of a new vernacular; and where the very issue of movement between languages is somehow central, and sound and rhythm are the fundamental characteristics of poetry. Written at the intersection of several romance languages, and most closely related to Spanish and Italian, the collection wears its Latinity on its sleeve; in other words, this is a collection fueled by the many convergences and divergences possible between Latin and its vernaculars, ultimately proposing that true Latinity is always first and foremost expressed through language. And, sometimes, also humor.