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  • May 10 , 2008, Friday, 8:00 pm- 8:30 pm
    Poetry Reading & Talk
    El Stand de la Embajada de los EE.UU. (The American Embassy Stand)
    Buenos Aires Book Fair
    Buenos Aires, Argentina
  • The Tokyo Tango Journal

 
"Tango, Tangoing: Poems & Art" by Mong-Lan
 

About Tango, Tangoing: Poems & Art

While the ostensible subject here is dance, Mong-Lan is brilliant at suggesting layered, ever-shifting perspectives, meanings, and voices.  These complex poems are, at times, aesthetic mediations, dissections of human relationships, internal monologues, and political inquiry. That Mong-Lan succeeds at such an ambitious project in writing that is visually striking, musically complex, unabashedly erotic and deeply intelligent, is testimony to her very great poetic talents.  This is a marvelous book, one I’ll return to again and again. --Kevin Prufer

Tango, Tangoing: Poems & Art
Poetry and Pen and Ink Drawings
of Tango Dancers by Mong-Lan
Valiant Press, Spring 2008
ISBN: 978-0-6151-8800-3

Ask for it at your favorite bookstore, or go online and order directly from bookstores such as Amazon.com

 
       
 
Background drawing of the Mekong river, in Vinh Long, Vietnam, by Mong-Lan, 1996.

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