false 55140 3 3 95874 0520231430 9780520231436 27 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171306594m/95874.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171306594s/95874.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/95874.Sleeping_with_the_Dictionary 4.03 278 Sleeping with the Dictionary, is the abecedarian offspring of her collaboration with two of the poet's most seductive writing partners, Roget's Thesaurus and The American Heritage Dictionary. In her ménage à trois with these faithful companions, the poet is aware that while Roget seems obsessed with categories and hierarchies, the American Heritage, whatever its faults, was compiled with the assistance of a democratic usage panel that included black poets Langston Hughes and Arna Bontemps, as well as feminist author and editor Gloria Steinem. With its arbitrary yet determinant alphabetical arrangement, its gleeful pursuit of the ludic pleasure of word games (acrostic, anagram, homophone, parody, pun), as well as its reflections on the politics of language and dialect, Mullen's work is serious play. A number of the poems are inspired or influenced by a technique of the international literary avant-garde group Oulipo, a dictionary game called S+7 or N+7. This method of textual transformation--which is used to compose nonsensical travesties reminiscent of Lewis Carroll's "Jabberwocky"--also creates a kind of automatic poetic discourse.
Mullen's parodies reconceive the African American's relation to the English language and Anglophone writing, through textual reproduction, recombining the genetic structure of texts from the Shakespearean sonnet and the fairy tale to airline safety instructions and unsolicited mail. The poet admits to being "licked all over by the English tongue," and the title of this book may remind readers that an intimate partner who also gives language lessons is called, euphemistically, a "pillow dictionary."]]> 55140 4.18 684 62 2002 519494 1555974562 9781555974565 20 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175481901m/519494.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175481901s/519494.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/519494.Recyclopedia_Trimmings_S_PeRM_K_T_and_Muse_Drudge 4.23 123 <div>Three important poetry collections brought together under one cover by Harryette Mullen, author of Sleeping with the Dictionary <div>
</div><div>if you turned down the media
so I could write a book
then you could look me up
in your voluminous recyclopedia
—from Muse & Drudge</div><div>
Recyclopedia shows the extraordinary development of Harryette Mullen’s career, in her books Trimmings, S*PeRM**K*T, and Muse & Drudge, all originally published in the 1990s and now available again to new readers. These prose poems and lyrics bring us into collision with the language of fashion and femininity, advertising and the supermarket, the blues and traditional lyric poetry. Recyclopedia is a major gathering of work by one of the most exciting and innovative poets writing in America today.</div></div>]]> 55140 4.18 684 62 2006 519497 0935162151 9780935162158 5 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223663382m/519497.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223663382s/519497.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/519497.Muse_and_Drudge 4.30 100 55140 4.18 684 62 1995 519495 0935162127 9780935162127 4 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175481902m/519495.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175481902s/519495.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/519495.S_Perm_K_T 4.44 64 55140 4.18 684 62 1992 519496 0927920026 9780927920025 1 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1242414591m/519496.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1242414591s/519496.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/519496.Trimmings 4.33 48 55140 4.18 684 62 1991 1007499 1555534643 9781555534646 3 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1180183980m/1007499.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1180183980s/1007499.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1007499.Oreo 4.04 27 505551 4.04 27 3 55140 4.18 684 62 2000 519498 0934004005 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/519498.Tree_Tall_Woman 3.25 4 55140 4.18 684 62 1981