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Book SynopsisLETTERRS is a book of poems that examines and interrogates language to its core, the shapes and sounds. In these poems Orlando White explores the origins and existence of letters, words, typography, the white space of the page, and their philosophical values to the writer/reader.
Trade Review“In combinations of ekphrasis, meditation, and imaginative play, White opens his poetic field to the typographical sign. As a Diné of the Naaneesht’ézhi Tábaahí, he initiates a poetic trajectory in this, his second remarkable book, that cuts across the roots of what we call American culture when, for instance, he asks ‘how does a letter become another when its origin is lost?’ LETTERRS is his complex ars poetica, a book of love poems to the grapheme and ‘its outbreak of silence.’ But it is also a provocative and systemic reorientation of language toward ritual, toward ‘bone-shaped artifacts,’ and the ‘notochord of thought.’ In LETTERRS, Orlando White situates the word at the unsettled beginning of human dialogue with the world.”—Forrest Gander
