All-Night Lingo Tango (Pitt Poetry Series)
Book Details
Author(s)
Barbara Hamby
Publisher
University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN / ASIN
0822960176
ISBN-13
9780822960171
Availability
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Sales Rank
#1,445,359
Category
Paperback
Marketplace
United States 🇺🇸
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Description
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.
