Tango

by Daniel Halpern

A COLLECTION OF POEMS INFUSED WITH THE RHYTHM AND ENERGY OF LIFE - Daniel Halpern’s poetry is marked by his insight and his ability to articulate with grace and precision the nature of what makes up the ongoing events of our lives. In this, his sixth collection, Mr. Halpern has written poems that are vivid, lyrical, intense, and, as the Irish critic Denis Donoghue has written, ”continuous with ‘the music of what happens’ . . . his themes are those of a perennial poetry.” The poems in Tango explore encounters—with landscape, with friendship, with isolation, with love and death. They evoke a keen sense of place—the Umbrian countryside, the towns of North Africa, the New England coast, and Van Nuys, California. Many of these new poems are formally innovative departures from Mr. Halpern’s earlier writing, and all attest to the mature and impressive gifts of a poet who has come into his own as one of the most graceful and accomplished writers of his generation. ”Daniel Halpern’s poems in Tango are remarkable for their quiet—the intimacy of a man talking honestly to himself. . . The quality of memory. . . which he repeatedly achieves is that nod of agreement which truth gives to experience, whether of praise or of pain.” ——Derek Walcott

Genres: Poetry

96 pages, Paperback

First published April 1, 1988

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[Mills College Library]

811.54 H1954t 1987