Holy Tango of Literature
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Holy Tango of Literature (Emmis Books, 2004), by Francis Heaney, is a book of literary parodies based on the theme "If poets and playwrights wrote works whose titles were anagrams of their names." Portions of the book originally appeared on the web site Modern Humorist ([1]) and in the anthology More Mirth of a Nation. An excerpt should illustrate the concept:
Skinny Domicile
by Emily Dickinson
I have a skinny Domicile—
Its Door is very narrow.
'Twill keep—I hope—the Reaper out—
His Scythe—and Bones—and Marrow.
Since Death is not a portly Chap,
The Entrance must be thin—
So—when my Final Moment comes—
He cannot wriggle in.
That's why I don't go out that much—
I can't fit through that Portal.
How dumb—to waste my Social Life
On Plans to be—immortal—
The book was a BookSense Pick for March 2005 ([2]), and was offered online as a free Creative Commons-licensed e-book by the author (with the permission of his publisher), and can be read in its entirety at http://www.yarnivore.com/francis/Holy_Tango.htm.
