From Professor Murasaki's Notebooks on the Effects of Lightning on the Human Body

A John Latham poem is a like a precipitation: images coalesce around a single memory the way ice crystallizes around the smallest particle to form a snowflake; the strange logic that constructs them is unique each time. Passionate, satirical, mysterious, the poems in his sixth collection capture the vibrancy of a childhood that still bewitches him half a century later, alongside the cruel betrayals of old age, and the fresh possibilities bound up in each new encounter.

Un poem al lui John Latham este ca o precipitatie: imaginile se unesc in jurul unei singure amintiri la felul in care gheata cristalizeaza in jurul celei mai mici particule pentru a forma un fulg de zapada; logica ciudata care le construieste este unica de fiecare data. Pasionat, satiric, misterios, poeziile din a sasea colectie ale sale surprind vibratia unei copilarii care inca il vrajeste o jumatate de secol mai tarziu, alaturi de tradarile crude ale batranetii si de posibilitatile noi legate de fiecare noua intalnire.