The Yat Dictionary - Softcover

Christian Champagne

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ISBN 10: 1935084291 ISBN 13: 9781935084297

Publisher: Lavender Ink, 2012

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Now, at long last, an exhaustive compendium of the fascinating language of the Yat. --- James Nolan says of Chris Champagne: "What Dylan Thomas did for Welsh, Chris Champagne does for YAT." And now, for the first time, what Chris has done for Yat is compiled into a complete reference for tourists and New Orleanians alike. As noted scholar and linguist Dr. Nancy Dixon says, “If you ain’t got this book, how you gonna talk right, Dawlin?” ----------------- "If scholars in a hundred years want to study the foibles of New Orleans, they will turn to Chris Champagne, but then again scholars usually ain’t that smart."-- Ronnie Virgets -------------------- "A chronicler of our town and our times, Chris Champagne is the boiled crab of comedy."-- Chris Rose -------------------- --From The Yat Dictionary: --Aag - Egg. “Ma favorite breakfast is bacon and aags.” Also slang for a goofball. “That guy ova dere is a real aag.” --Acrosst - Across. As in crossword puzzle instruction. “Fo-teen acrosst: a seven letter word for across.”

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Chris Champagne is "...perhaps the best comedy writer in town." - Al Shea "This is poetry on the cloven hoof - nothing but pure psychotic associative human beauty. He's off the beaten wall. He came to a fork in the road, and he went straight up instead. ... Chris is one of the several classic born-and-bred voices in New Orleans. This is the authentic product of Big Easiness ..." - Bill Myers (Poet) Christian Champagne is working his way "...to creating a mythos of New Orleans thereby putting it poetically on the American sound body - and you can tell this to anyone who wants to know." - Andrei Codrescu "Christian Champagne is one of the most ingenious writers working in the country today. We are extremely fortunate to have this kind of talent living right here in New Orleans." - Walt Handelsman (Editorial cartoonist - Times Picayune) "What Dylan Thomas did for Welsh, Christian Champagne does for "YAT". -James Nolan (Writer in residence, Tulane University) "Chris Champagne is a Southern Woody Allen and anyone who has ever been in love should read one of his poems every day." -Liz Scott/Modine Gunch "He's blessedly off the beaten path, thrashing around in the landscapes of modern love and mere survival, New Orleans style, with long ruminative poems that have a reach, poignancy, and comic sensibility reminiscent of the actors of silent film. Among the other things these poems are, they are true and funny, as if Ignatius Reilly were writing Charles Bukowski ... but that's not right either. This is an original voice ..." - Ralph Adamo (Editor, New Orleans Review)

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