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    Lessons for Tangueros
    Lessons for Tangueros
    Lessons for Tangueros
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    Lessons for Tangueros

    By Lew Watts

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    This collection of poetry is more than a compilation of poems around the dance of Argentine Tango. It represents the author's early experience of learning the dance - from the depths of humiliation to later moments of ecstasy - and of the important lessons of life learned through this experience. The initial poems in the first section describe events and emotions that led to the decision to attend the first lesson which introduces the second section on the lessons themselves. A third section dwells on some of the individual steps and movements within tango, often from a different or unique perspective, and the book concludes with a series of poems that reflect on the experience and the dance itself. The combined work represents one year in a new tanguero's (male tango dancer's) life.
    In this collection you will find free verse, blank verse and prose poems interspersed between more formal metrical forms. There are pantoums, rondeaus, sestinas, sonnets, terza rimas, triolets, villanelles as well as haikus, tankas and even sapphics. The end result is a book of dance, and of finding oneself within the beautiful dance of tango.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAuthorHouse
    Release dateJan 17, 2011
    ISBN9781456710040
    Lessons for Tangueros
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    Lew Watts

    Lew Watts is originally from Wales and, after many years living in Africa, the Middle East and Europe, moved recently to the United Sates where he is an energy consultant. His poetry has been published in various magazines and anthologies in Europe, and his first US work appeared in 2010. For almost 2 years, he has been learning to dance Tango and his experiences inspired this, his first, poetry collection. He lives in Santa Fe and Chicago and travels extensively.

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      Lessons for Tangueros - Lew Watts

      © 2011 Lew Watts. All rights reserved.

      No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted by any means without the written permission of the author.

      First published by AuthorHouse 1/1/2010

      ISBN: 978-1-4567-1004-0 (e)

      ISBN: 978-1-4567-1005-7 (sc)

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2010917110

      Printed in the United States of America

      This book is printed on acid-free paper.

      Certain stock imagery © Thinkstock.

      Because of the dynamic nature of the Internet, any Web addresses or links contained in this book may have changed since publication and may no longer be valid. The views expressed in this work are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the publisher, and the publisher hereby disclaims any responsibility for them.

      she declines his glance

      with a slow turn of the head

      moment of death

      Contents

      Before

      Black Tie Lament

      Sapphic Dreams of Dancing with You

      Bandoneón

      An Orchestra of Voices for Astor Piazzolla

      Tango!

      I want to change my life

      Lessons

      The First Lesson

      The Second Lesson

      The Fourth Lesson - Shoes

      The Fifth Lesson - Molinette

      The Group Lesson

      The First Practica

      A Triolet for Tango Wounds

      The Tenth Lesson

      The First Milonga

      Obsession

      Rondeau for Tangueros

      Embrace

      Steps

      Salida

      Boleo

      Mordida

      Ochos

      Eight

      Barrida

      Gancho

      Volcadas

      Vareador

      Reflections

      The Color of Tango

      Milonga - Haikus

      Waiting with Water

      Walking to You - a Triolet

      Chico Frumboli

      Washing up at 2.15 am

      Tango Tankas

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      Milonga - El Mesón

      Libertango Duet

      Milonga - Wesley Methodist Church

      A Lesson for Sons

      La Cumparisita

      Acknowledgements

      Before

      Black Tie Lament

      When we used to dance we stayed apart,

      thrashing and shaking our heads as though denying

      we’d get to an age where the only time we’d touch

      was when I’d cup your elbow through a door,

      or dab dust from your eye with a handkerchief,

      or push the small of your back away from a fracas.

      Your father taught you to ballroom dance - a shame

      I never knew him, learned to quick-step. Instead,

      in these black-tie benefit years of life,

      I look away when I hear you tap your feet

      under the table unable to catch my eye;

      then dancing with your purse or another man

      while in the washroom I wash the room for hours,

      willing down at my hairline, picking teeth.

      But there is always one last dance, some crap like Andy

      Williams’ Wise Men Say Only Fools Rush In -

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