THE ALPHABET, OPENED UP
Pick a letter.
Stay a while.
Original artwork throughout, with five complete poem-and-voice samples from the book.
01 / LOOK A LITTLE CLOSER
There’s more to a letter.
Choose a letter. Look for its shapes. Hear how it sounds.
LETTER A / THE BOOK
An A in Art
Colored smart to start
Take a triangle and triple it.
Then line it with color bit by bit,
With sharpened tips like sailing ships
Then flattened sides and jagged divides.
Adventure awaits on the angled edge of A,
An active letter lined with hues to play.
Ridden red from blue then lined with a ray
Of light – white and bright, but hey…
This is an alphabet apart
Animated from the heart.
A may be abrupt, brusque, or curt you say grinning
But such begets a winning beginning.
Hear Peter read this letter
The full poem is in LETTERS. Explore A, C, m & n, O, or Q here as complete art-and-poetry samples.
Find the full alphabet in the book ↗Poetry by Peter Liptak · Original book artwork by Lynn Tsan
M and N share a study, just as they do in the book.