Welcome to the tango, sensual, elusive and alluring. In "Tango, Tangoing: Poems & Art," Mong-Lan extends an invitation to explore with her the sensual world of Argentine tango through poetry and art. Her striking poetry and elegant pen & ink drawings of tango dancers illuminate and reveal this remarkable world in an original manner that captivates and intrigues, leaving you "breathless from its impassioned elaborations and imagistic intensity." Prize-winning poet, visual artist and Argentine tango dancer / teacher, Mong-Lan combines her talents and knowledge in one beautiful, luminous book. Mong-Lan's honors include the Juniper Prize, a Fulbright Fellowship in Vietnam, a Stegner Fellowship at Stanford University, inclusion in Best American Poetry and Pushcart Prize Anthology volumes. Her artwork has been exhibited in galleries in the United States, the Dallas Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, the U.S. Capitol House, and in public exhibitions in Tokyo, Seoul, Bali and Bangkok.
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By Ashvin S
This remarkable and enthralling book on tango art and poetry flows like a river, taking you through a journey of of deep emotion, from elation to rending sadness, through quiet and disquiet. Each poem pulls at your heart, the words making you one with the passion and drama of the tango, the Argentine partner dance, and of the people of Buenos Aires.
This is a unique way to learn the dynamics of this incredible dance as well as the intense tribulations of a people. Interspersed through the book are sections of prose, linking dancers in individuality and in partnership to their inner selves, exploring the dimensions of mind and heart.
The art work is sublime, subtle, suggestive, always drawing you in ever closer to your innermost romance and turmoil.
An amazing find, this book is a must-have, especially for every artist, poet and dancer, experienced and aspiring.
(Also check out the review under bilingual English-Spanish version: http://www.amazon.com/Tango-Tangueando-Dibujos-Tangoing-Bilingual/dp/0578033615/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1337183974&sr=8-1 )
This is a unique way to learn the dynamics of this incredible dance as well as the intense tribulations of a people. Interspersed through the book are sections of prose, linking dancers in individuality and in partnership to their inner selves, exploring the dimensions of mind and heart.
The art work is sublime, subtle, suggestive, always drawing you in ever closer to your innermost romance and turmoil.
An amazing find, this book is a must-have, especially for every artist, poet and dancer, experienced and aspiring.
(Also check out the review under bilingual English-Spanish version: http://www.amazon.com/Tango-Tangueando-Dibujos-Tangoing-Bilingual/dp/0578033615/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1337183974&sr=8-1 )
By Franco L.
In this book, TANGO, TANGOING: POEMS AND ART, Mong-Lan captures an essential component of what Tango represents. She reveals in her poems the same feeling a tango dancer manifests in his or her dance. The evocative response from the music, the intimacy of each dance partner, the indifference of the surroundings, and the warmth and passion of the embrace as they dance and get lost in a chaotic universe of emotions.
When I read her poems, I get transported to that place where all the senses get stimulated and overwhelmed by the music and the dance.....one word at a time....one Poem at a time.
The book combines more than one writing style, making it more interesting and dynamic reading. Her drawings seem to come alive as the echoing of her poems draw your attention to them.
This book will entice you to the amazing world of Tango! A must read!
When I read her poems, I get transported to that place where all the senses get stimulated and overwhelmed by the music and the dance.....one word at a time....one Poem at a time.
The book combines more than one writing style, making it more interesting and dynamic reading. Her drawings seem to come alive as the echoing of her poems draw your attention to them.
This book will entice you to the amazing world of Tango! A must read!
By Xuan Huong
"Tango, Tangoing" by Mong-Lan is spectacular and out of this world. A book of extraordinary poems on the tango, Argentine tango in particular; but not only this, she includes many of her beautiful, elegant pen and ink drawings of tango dancers. The drawings are incredible, something between Asian brush calligraphy and Matisse's drawings of dancers, a resplendant mixture of East and West. I have not seen anything like this on the tango, or literature/poetry about dance.
Here's what famous poets and critics have said about this volume on the back cover:
"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
"Mong-Lan's lyric poetry is unlike any others. The work sings, but it is not music alone that moves us; it's what we experience through the speaker's observational accuracy and emotional wisdom: 'The oscillatory / foolish / the insane / make their way / into tangos' and 'I would find you / locked in a mosquito's eye.' Consisting of three extraordinary poems about Argentine tango, the work is 'muy generoso,' as she quotes the dance itself as being, in its sweep and precision. The poems are not merely illustrative of the dance's famous forwardness; they reveal the transformative power of the commitment the dance requires: the finding of rhythm with another at the edge of mayhem, even as stillness is created at the center of the ochos, emblems of infinity, the dancers create on the floor." --Paul Hoover
"Improvisatory, epigrammatic, sensual, meditative, and always generous, Mong-Lan celebrates, as well as dissects, the intricacies and implications of the tango. Interweaving art with verse, this collection will leave you breathless from its impassioned elaborations and imagistic intensity." --Cyril Wong
Here's what famous poets and critics have said about this volume on the back cover:
"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
"Mong-Lan's lyric poetry is unlike any others. The work sings, but it is not music alone that moves us; it's what we experience through the speaker's observational accuracy and emotional wisdom: 'The oscillatory / foolish / the insane / make their way / into tangos' and 'I would find you / locked in a mosquito's eye.' Consisting of three extraordinary poems about Argentine tango, the work is 'muy generoso,' as she quotes the dance itself as being, in its sweep and precision. The poems are not merely illustrative of the dance's famous forwardness; they reveal the transformative power of the commitment the dance requires: the finding of rhythm with another at the edge of mayhem, even as stillness is created at the center of the ochos, emblems of infinity, the dancers create on the floor." --Paul Hoover
"Improvisatory, epigrammatic, sensual, meditative, and always generous, Mong-Lan celebrates, as well as dissects, the intricacies and implications of the tango. Interweaving art with verse, this collection will leave you breathless from its impassioned elaborations and imagistic intensity." --Cyril Wong
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