All-Night Lingo Tango

Fiction & Literature, Poetry, American
Cover of the book All-Night Lingo Tango by Barbara Hamby, University of Pittsburgh Press
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Author: Barbara Hamby ISBN: 9780822990949
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press Publication: February 20, 2009
Imprint: University of Pittsburgh Press Language: English
Author: Barbara Hamby
ISBN: 9780822990949
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Publication: February 20, 2009
Imprint: University of Pittsburgh Press
Language: English

This collection is a love letter to language with poems that are drunk and filled with references to the hyperkinetic world of the twenty-first century. Yet Zeus and Hera tangle with Leda on the interstate; Ava Gardner becomes a Hindu princess; and Shiva, the Destroyer, reigns over all. English is the primary god here, with its huge vocabulary and omnivorous gluttony for new words, yet the mystery of the alphabet is behind everything, a funky puppet masterwho can make a new world out of nothing.

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This collection is a love letter to language with poems that are drunk and filled with references to the hyperkinetic world of the twenty-first century. Yet Zeus and Hera tangle with Leda on the interstate; Ava Gardner becomes a Hindu princess; and Shiva, the Destroyer, reigns over all. English is the primary god here, with its huge vocabulary and omnivorous gluttony for new words, yet the mystery of the alphabet is behind everything, a funky puppet masterwho can make a new world out of nothing.

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