All-Night Lingo Tango
All-Night Lingo Tango
Barbara Hamby
Series: Pitt Poetry Series
Copyright Date: 2009
Published by: University of Pittsburgh Press
https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt5hjqj3
Pages: 88
https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt5hjqj3
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All-Night Lingo Tango
Book 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.

eISBN: 978-0-8229-9094-9
Subjects: Language & Literature
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  1. Front Matter
    Front Matter (pp. [i]-[vi])
    https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt5hjqj3.1
  2. Table of Contents
    Table of Contents (pp. [vii]-[viii])
    https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt5hjqj3.2
  3. I
    • Ode to Anglo Saxon, Film Noir, and the Hundred Thousand Anxieties that plague Me like Demons in a Medieval Christian Allegory
      Ode to Anglo Saxon, Film Noir, and the Hundred Thousand Anxieties that plague Me like Demons in a Medieval Christian Allegory (pp. 3-4)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt5hjqj3.3
    • Who Do Mambo
      Who Do Mambo (pp. 5-6)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt5hjqj3.4
    • Working at Pam-Pam’s
      Working at Pam-Pam’s (pp. 7-8)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt5hjqj3.5
    • Ode on Laundry, Lester Young, and Your Last Letter
      Ode on Laundry, Lester Young, and Your Last Letter (pp. 9-10)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt5hjqj3.6
    • 9 Sonnets from the Psalms
      9 Sonnets from the Psalms (pp. 11-15)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt5hjqj3.7
    • A Birdman to You, Baby
      A Birdman to You, Baby (pp. 16-17)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt5hjqj3.8
    • Ode to Airheads, Hairdos, Trains to and from Paris
      Ode to Airheads, Hairdos, Trains to and from Paris (pp. 18-19)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt5hjqj3.9
    • Mambo Cadillac
      Mambo Cadillac (pp. 20-21)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt5hjqj3.10
    • O’ahu Mambo
      O’ahu Mambo (pp. 22-24)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt5hjqj3.11
  4. II Lingo Sonnets
    • Aloha, Dad, Au Revoir, Goodbye
      Aloha, Dad, Au Revoir, Goodbye (pp. 27-27)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt5hjqj3.12
    • Betty Boop’s Bebop
      Betty Boop’s Bebop (pp. 28-28)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt5hjqj3.13
    • Caliban Passes His Driving Test on the Ninth Try
      Caliban Passes His Driving Test on the Ninth Try (pp. 29-29)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt5hjqj3.14
    • Desdemona Resuscitated by Sir John Falstaff, EMT
      Desdemona Resuscitated by Sir John Falstaff, EMT (pp. 30-30)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt5hjqj3.15
    • Elizabeth Cady Stanton Writes the Dictionary
      Elizabeth Cady Stanton Writes the Dictionary (pp. 31-31)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt5hjqj3.16
    • Friday Slams Crusoe
      Friday Slams Crusoe (pp. 32-32)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt5hjqj3.17
    • Ganymede’s Dream of Rosalind
      Ganymede’s Dream of Rosalind (pp. 33-33)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt5hjqj3.18
    • Hope Revived: The Road to Baghdad
      Hope Revived: The Road to Baghdad (pp. 34-34)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt5hjqj3.19
    • I Find an Entrance to Hell
      I Find an Entrance to Hell (pp. 35-35)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt5hjqj3.20
    • Jane Austen Rewrites Hamlet with Interruptions by Russian Poets
      Jane Austen Rewrites Hamlet with Interruptions by Russian Poets (pp. 36-36)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt5hjqj3.21
    • Karen, David, and I Stop across the Street from the Pitti Palace
      Karen, David, and I Stop across the Street from the Pitti Palace (pp. 37-37)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt5hjqj3.22
    • Lysistrata Lectures the Gods
      Lysistrata Lectures the Gods (pp. 38-38)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt5hjqj3.23
    • Mr. Nollie Hinton Talks to Me while I Test-Drive His 1955 Studebaker
      Mr. Nollie Hinton Talks to Me while I Test-Drive His 1955 Studebaker (pp. 39-39)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt5hjqj3.24
    • Nietzsche Explains the Übermensch to Lois Lane
      Nietzsche Explains the Übermensch to Lois Lane (pp. 40-40)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt5hjqj3.25
    • Olive Oyl Thinks about Quantum Theory
      Olive Oyl Thinks about Quantum Theory (pp. 41-41)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt5hjqj3.26
    • Punk Puck or Robin Goodfellow with Fender Stratocaster
      Punk Puck or Robin Goodfellow with Fender Stratocaster (pp. 42-42)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt5hjqj3.27
    • Queen Mab Blues or Quick, Run for Cover, She’s Reading Horace Again
      Queen Mab Blues or Quick, Run for Cover, She’s Reading Horace Again (pp. 43-43)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt5hjqj3.28
    • Raskolnikov Rates the Plays
      Raskolnikov Rates the Plays (pp. 44-44)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt5hjqj3.29
    • So Says Cleopatra, Reincarnated as a Hippie Chick, circa 1967
      So Says Cleopatra, Reincarnated as a Hippie Chick, circa 1967 (pp. 45-45)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt5hjqj3.30
    • Titus Woos Titania
      Titus Woos Titania (pp. 46-46)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt5hjqj3.31
    • Ulysses Talks with Freud about the Underworld
      Ulysses Talks with Freud about the Underworld (pp. 47-47)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt5hjqj3.32
    • Venus and Dogsbody, a Match Made in New Jersey
      Venus and Dogsbody, a Match Made in New Jersey (pp. 48-48)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt5hjqj3.33
    • Whatever or As You Like It, Part Two
      Whatever or As You Like It, Part Two (pp. 49-49)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt5hjqj3.34
    • Xerox My Heart, Three-Headed Dog
      Xerox My Heart, Three-Headed Dog (pp. 50-50)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt5hjqj3.35
    • Yorick’s Soliloquy
      Yorick’s Soliloquy (pp. 51-51)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt5hjqj3.36
    • Zeus, It’s Your Leda, Sweetie Pie
      Zeus, It’s Your Leda, Sweetie Pie (pp. 52-52)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt5hjqj3.37
  5. III
    • All-Night Lingo Tango
      All-Night Lingo Tango (pp. 55-56)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt5hjqj3.38
    • Ode on Dictionaries
      Ode on Dictionaries (pp. 57-58)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt5hjqj3.39
    • Ode to Odor, Ardor, and the Queen’s Chickabobboo
      Ode to Odor, Ardor, and the Queen’s Chickabobboo (pp. 59-60)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt5hjqj3.40
    • Ode to Diagramming Sentences in Eighth-Grade English Class with Moonlight, Drugs, and Stars
      Ode to Diagramming Sentences in Eighth-Grade English Class with Moonlight, Drugs, and Stars (pp. 61-62)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt5hjqj3.41
    • Ode on My 45s, Insomnia, and My Poststructuralist Superego
      Ode on My 45s, Insomnia, and My Poststructuralist Superego (pp. 63-64)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt5hjqj3.42
    • Ode to Fear
      Ode to Fear (pp. 65-66)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt5hjqj3.43
    • Ode on Cake, Catcalls, Eggs with a Minor Scary Reference to the End of the World
      Ode on Cake, Catcalls, Eggs with a Minor Scary Reference to the End of the World (pp. 67-68)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt5hjqj3.44
    • Ode to Little Boys
      Ode to Little Boys (pp. 69-71)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt5hjqj3.45
    • Ode to White Peaches, Pennies, Planets, and Bijou, the Dog
      Ode to White Peaches, Pennies, Planets, and Bijou, the Dog (pp. 72-73)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt5hjqj3.46
    • Ode on the Letter M
      Ode on the Letter M (pp. 74-76)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt5hjqj3.47
  6. Notes
    Notes (pp. 77-78)
    https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt5hjqj3.48
  7. Acknowledgments
    Acknowledgments (pp. 79-80)
    https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt5hjqj3.49