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- All-Night Lingo Tango
- Book
- 2009
- Published by: University of Pittsburgh Press
- Series: Pitt Poetry Series
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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.
Table of Contents
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- Who Do Mambo
- pp. 5-6
- Working at Pam-Pam’s
- pp. 7-8
- 9 Sonnets from the Psalms
- pp. 11-15
- A Birdman to You, Baby
- pp. 16-17
- Mambo Cadillac
- pp. 20-21
- O’ahu Mambo
- pp. 22-23
- II: Lingo Sonnets
- pp. 25-52
- Betty Boop’s Bebop
- p. 28
- Friday Slams Crusoe
- p. 32
- Titus Woos Titania
- p. 46
- Yorick’s Soliloquy
- p. 51
- III
- All-Night Lingo Tango
- pp. 55-56
- Ode on Dictionaries
- pp. 57-58
- Ode to Fear
- pp. 65-66
- Ode to Little Boys
- pp. 69-71
- Ode on the Letter M
- pp. 74-75
- Acknowledgments
- pp. 79-80
Additional Information
ISBN
9780822990949
Related ISBN(s)
9780822960171
MARC Record
OCLC
835768805
Pages
88
Launched on MUSE
2013-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No
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