Poetry. The 26 poems in the book, a meditation on the Semitic origins of the Roman alphabet, written in 1991, follow a rhyme scheme imagined by the late Bob Zachary as somewhat of a curiosity. Vangelisti took up the 21 line form more as a guide to an outlandish territory than as a challenge. Fascinated by the genealogy-archeology of the letter forms that inspired the poems, Suggs later made the excursion on his own. Born in 1945, Paul Vangelisti is the author of more than 20 books of poetry, as well as being a noted translator from Italian. From 1971 to 1982, he was co-editor of the literary magazine Invisible City and, since 1993, has been the editor of Ribot, the annual publication of the College of Neglected Science. Don Suggs, born in 1945, is a painter, some of whose recent work is based in photography. He exhibits at L.A. Louver Gallery in Venice, California, and teaches at UCLA.

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