Francis Heaney, author of the laugh-out-loud hilarious book, The Holy Tango of Literature, is offering it for free as a printable e-book on his site. Hopefully, people will see how brilliant it is and buy a paper copy for friends as a gift this holiday. The central question of the collection is "What if poets and playwrights wrote poems and plays with titles that are anagrams of their own names?"
I was a huge e.e. cummings fan in high school, so here's one of my favorites from the book:
nice smug me
e. e. cummings
nice smug me lived in a pretty hip town
(with up so noses snobs looking down)
saks moomba vong prada
i wore my mesclun i ate my uggs
Women and men(both wealthy and rich)
opened their mouths to gossip and bitch
as many by many we spent our bucks
scarf tie hat tux
noon by drunk and cab by home
we laughed our loves and felled our rome
(gin vodka wine vermouth)i
said my shouldnts i scorned my shoulds
Women and men(both thin and tall)
glamour vogue esquire elle
smiled my jokes and slept my myth
cindy adams liz smith
(If you buy it here, it's only $8.96 and the profits go to schools. But it's also on Amazon.)
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