Entries on a postlanguage poetics in harryette mullens dictionary. Entries on a postlanguage poetics in harryette mullens. A reading by anselm hollo, from guests of space, and harryette mullen, from sleeping with the dictionary. All the recent talk about play in language seems academic or anemic when set beside harryette mullen s latest work. Feb 22, 2002 harryette mullen s fifth poetry collection, sleeping with the dictionary, is the abecedarian offspring of her collaboration with two of the poets most seductive writing partners, rogets thesaurus and the american heritage dictionary. Try searching on jstor for other items related to this book.
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Sleeping with the dictionary download pdfepub ebook. New york, ny march 30, 2020 the academy of american poets is pleased to announce that harryette mullen has selected threa almontaser as the recipient of the 2020 walt whitman award, the nations most valuable first book prize for a poet, for her manuscript, the wild fox of yemen, which will be published by graywolf press in april 2021. Her collections of poetry include spermkt 1992, sleeping with the dictionary 2002, recyclopedia 2006, and urban tumbleweed. While mullen s method shares many characteristics with goldsmiths, a crucial difference is her further rhythmical arrangement of the collected pieces into poeticmusical phrases. Buy harryette mullen ebooks to read online or download in pdf or epub on your pc, tablet or mobile device. Many of the other poems in sleeping with the dictionary employ similar collection and arrangement techniques. Harryette mullen has 16 books on goodreads with 12658 ratings. A quick perusal of the table of contents in harryette mullens sleeping with the. Sleeping with the dictionary harryette mullen national.
Harryette mullens sleeping with the dictionary module 4 coursera. In it, she figures poetic creation neither as a romantic epiphany of the poets essential self nor as pure linguistic or procedural play. In the dark nights insomnia, the book is a stimulating sedative, awakening my tired imagination to the hypnagogic trance of language. Harryette mullens sleeping with the dictionary module. Urban tumbleweed is poet harryette mullens exploration of spaces where the city and the natural world collide.
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