Holy Tango of Literature: If Poets & Playwrights Wrote Works Whose Titles Were Anagrams of Their Names

By Francis Heaney

A witty collection of poetry and prose satirizing the great poets and playwrights of literary history, with a twist: each writer's name is rearranged in an anagram as a title of the new "work," creating the subject for a parody rendered in the writer's style. A devilishly clever collection of poetry and prose satirizing the great poets and playwrights of literary history, from Shakespeare, Chaucer, and Basho; to Oscar Wilde, Edgar Allen Poe, and Emily Dickinson; to Sylvia Plath, e. e. cummings, and Maya Angelou. But there's a twist: Each writer's name is rearranged in an anagram as a title of the new "work," creating the subject for a parody rendered in the author's style, riffing on everything from the IRS to Star Wars . Features astute caricatures by renowned cartoonist Richard Thompson (1957-2016), whose syndicated comic strips Cul de Sac and Richard's Poor Almanac appeared in The Washington Post , and who also illustrated for The New Yorker , The Atlantic Monthly, and many others.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1454946164
• ISBN13: 9781454946168
• Release Date: June 2022
• Publisher: Sterling
• Length: 144 Pages