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All - Night Lingo Tango - The Poetry Shop

University of Pittsburgh Press

All-Night Lingo Tango

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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.
Book Details
Publisher:
University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN:
9780822960171
Binding:
Paperback
Pages:
88
Authors:
Barbara Hamby
Published Date:
2009-02-11
Language:
English
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About Barbara Hamby

Born in New Orleans and raised in Hawaii, Barbara Hamby earned an MA from Florida State University in 1981 and was named a Distinguished University Scholar there in 2010. Her first collection, Delirium (University of North Texas Press, 1995), won the Vassar Miller Prize, the Kate Tufts Discovery Award, and the Norma Farber First Book Award from the Poetry Society of America. Babel (2004) won the Donald Hall Prize in Poetry. Her linked story collection Lester Higata's 20th Century received the 2010 Iowa Short Fiction Award. She has held a Guggenheim Fellowship and a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts.

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