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No Dictionary of a Living Tongue
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Winner of the Nightboat Poetry Prize (2015)
No Dictionary of a Living Tongue is formidable in its explorations of art, citizenship, and life as a body amid the social, political, and electronic networks that define us, hold us together, bind us. The poems here take many forms--prose, lyric, epigram, narrative, dialogue fragment, song, musical score, fairy tale, and ...more
No Dictionary of a Living Tongue is formidable in its explorations of art, citizenship, and life as a body amid the social, political, and electronic networks that define us, hold us together, bind us. The poems here take many forms--prose, lyric, epigram, narrative, dialogue fragment, song, musical score, fairy tale, and ...more
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Bob Dylan's "Blowin' In The Wind" has prodded a listener's conscience with the question "How many...?" for so long now, its once plaintive, weighty query has become meaningless cliche. Duriel E. Harris takes up the question once again (this is my conclusion, not a stated intention of the author) in "He who fights with monsters" and compellingly revives and reinvigorates that eternal question and it's corollaries.
Duriel is a poet, singer, performance artist and in this 2-dimensional format she ...more
Duriel is a poet, singer, performance artist and in this 2-dimensional format she ...more
The best collection of poetry I read this school quarter. The way Harris navigates language is unique and particularly beautiful. I found myself having to stop and savor lines of certain poems throughout the collection. This is a new favorite book and I am honored to have read it.
really really loved "Let us, you and I (Levers and Locks)
Rich evocative inspiring writing, and I also must say that I work with Duriel and she is awesome!
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Duriel E. Harris is a poet, performer, and sound artist. She is author of three print volumes of poetry, including her most recent, No Dictionary of a Living Tongue (Nightboat, 2017), Drag (2003) and Amnesiac: Poems (2010). Multi-genre works include her one-person theatrical performance Thingification, as well as Speleology (2011), a video collaboration with artist Scott Rankin. Recent and
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