"'Wild!' she calls out in one poem, and in another ('I am your wild'), Cintia Santana sketches a self-portrait that serves for this high-spirited book, 'I'm / your top, your spin . . . Tremble / and sway.' She's a superb new poet, serving up gusts of generative energy and acute intelligence. There's wordplay galore in
The Disordered Alphabet, but so much more: temptation and swoon, confession, exposure, and the kind of daring formal agitation that accomplishes one rigorous shape after another to enable Santana's discoveries and her complex harmonic voicings. The alphabet may be disordered, and the cosmos awhirl, but this book is a crystalline achievement of rapture, balance, and brilliance."
–David Baker