All-Night Lingo Tango

By (author): "Barbara Hamby"
Publish Date: January 1st 2009
All-Night Lingo Tango
ISBN0822960176
ISBN139780822960171
AsinAll-Night Lingo Tango
Original titleAll-Night Lingo Tango (Pitt Poetry Series)
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.