Letters -- Building an Alphabet with Art & Attitude

ABC... the art and poetry of the English alphabet explained in a philosophical verse of rhythm and rhyme. Much can be learned about a people by the language they use, but what can be said of the letters of that language? This playful treatise on the alphabet of English explores the art and philosophy of some letters as they gained form in one artist's eye (and expression in the language of a wondering wordsmith). Art, Caffeine and Kismet This book is dedicated to destiny, the suggestion of serendipity, to the gods of chance, the happy help of happenstance, the fortune of fate and the likelihood of luck. From a chance meeting, a house seen, a coffee shop greeting, began an alliance between artists intent on caffeine induced creations. An artist's adventure into the alphabet led a man of letters to seek their soul, but what could we know of the words that would grow from such warm inscriptions all aglow? 26 letters called out for a home and found one in the words of this tiny tome. Two from the Twin Cities The man of letters Peter Liptak The woman of words art Lynn Tsan