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Force of the Heart: Tango, Art, Mong-Lan's newly released book,
full of sensuality, vigor and loveliness, contains drawings, paintings, and a poem interspersed, all based on the tango. Mong-Lan shares with us her tango vision, a world of lines, flowing bodies in motion. A world of great heart, a blossoming love, and a vision all her own. Reminiscent of Picasso, Matisse, and the great artists of this century, Mong-Lan's pen and inks on paper are like performance pieces on the page, a moment captured. Floating, yet grounded in a ferocity of the mind along with Mong-Lan's impeccable technique of the hand and eye, the dancers tango in a centrifugal force of the heart.
Praise for Tango, Tangoing: Poems & Art:
"A mesmerizing accomplishment - four voices at their climax: the dance, if we can call it that, the physics of being, the history and manual of dark beauty and the voleos of line, ink, stanza and voice, layers of loss, desire and the body in ecstatic explosions. Three drops of Lorca, one tincture of María Luisa Bombal and a full vasija of Mong-Lan, a masterpiece, señores y señoras. A mathematics of fire."
-- Juan Felipe Herrera
" . . . . 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
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
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