Holy Tango of Literature

Holy Tango of Literature is a 2004 anthology of absurdist poetry and drama in the style of various poets and playwrights, written by Francis Heaney with illustrations by Richard Thompson.[1] It was published by Emmis Books, after some of its content originally appeared in Modern Humorist in 2000 and 2001;[2] Heaney subsequently released it online under the Creative Commons license.

Its content is dedicated to anagrams (thus the title: "Holy Tango" is an anagram of "anthology"), in that each work's title is an anagram of the name of a noted poet or playwright, and the content of the work is based on that title, and written to mimic one of the original author's most noted works. Thus, for instance, Gerard Manley Hopkins is anagrammed into "Kong Ran My Dealership", which parodies Hopkins' The Windhover, and describes how King Kong was hired to manage a car dealership.

Reception

Publishers Weekly considered it "brilliantly funny" and "terribly clever",[3] while in the Spectator, Sam Leith called it a "complete joy";[4] similarly, Neil Gaiman found it to be "really sharp",[5] and Douglas Wolk thought it was "awesome".[6]

gollark: The past is mostly not very good and it wouldn't be very nice living there. Unless you're time-travelling and can just go for a bit and/or bring back knowledge from the future (present?).
gollark: Plus, life extension research is an actual thing now so hopefully some of us may actually live long enough for space exploration at some scale.
gollark: Oh, and much faster.
gollark: > Born too late to explore the world / Born too early to explore the starsIt's not like being on some sort of ship voyage to a faraway place which you stand a decent chance of not coming back from would be very nice. Nowadays you can travel basically most of the planet very cheaply and with low risk, and find stuff which is new *to you* if not to everyone.
gollark: The whatnow?

References
  1. Holy Tango of Literature, at Richard's Poor Almanac, by Richard Thompson; published February 2, 2012; retrieved August 8, 2016
  2. Index of ANAGRAM, at Modern Humorist
  3. ShelfTalker: Holy Tango of Literature, by Alison Morris, at Publishers Weekly; published March 28, 2007; retrieved August 8, 2016
  4. Curiosities of literature, by Sam Leith, in the Spectator; published October 9, 2010; retrieved August 8, 2016
  5. the last tea post, by Neil Gaiman, at NeilGaiman.com; published June 6, 2005; retrieved August 8, 2016
  6. boat of many crullers, by Douglas Wolk, at lacunae.com; published February 20, 2006; retrieved August 8, 2016
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