All-Night Lingo Tango by Hamby, Barbara

All-Night Lingo Tango (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780822960171)

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Format: Paperback
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All-Night Lingo Tango by Hamby, Barbara

All-Night Lingo Tango

$18.00
All-Night Lingo Tango by Hamby, Barbara

All-Night Lingo Tango

$18.00
Format: Paperback
Description
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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 master who can make a new world out of nothing.

Author: Barbara Hamby
ISBN-10: 0822960176
ISBN-13: 9780822960171
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Language: English
Published: 02/11/2009
Pages: 88
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.32lbs
Size: 8.58h x 6.48w x 0.27d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 01/19/2009 pg. 42
Library Journal 02/15/2009 pg. 110
By Barbara Hamby
By Barbara Hamby
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Barbara Hamby is writer-in-residence at Florida State University. She is the author of two chapbooks and three previous poetry collections: The Alphabet of Desire; Delirium; and Babel, winner of the 2003 Donald Hall Prize in Poetry. Her poems have appeared in numerous publications including the Paris Review, the Iowa Review, the Kenyon Review, and Best American Poetry 2000.

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