New York: The Viking Press, (1987.) dj. Hardcover first edition - His sixth collection of poems - from the dj: "The poems in Tango explore encounters -- with landscape, with friendship, with isolation, with love and death. As in Mr. Halpern's previous work, there are poems that evoke with great intensity a keen sense of place -- the New England coast, the Umbrian countryside, the towns of North Africa, and Van Nuys, California; but many of these new poems are formally innovative departures from his earlier writing." Praise from Derek Walcott, C. K. Williams, Robert Penn Warren, and others. 88 pp. ISBN: 0-670815446.