Sleeping with the Dictionary
Series: New California Poetry; New California poetry
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 99
ISBN-13: 9780520927834
Subjects: LITERARY CRITICISM; Poetry
Description: Harryette Mullen's fifth poetry collection, 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.
Table of contents: title: Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; All She Wrote; The Anthropic Principle; Any Lit; Ask Aden; Between; Bilingual Instructions; Black Nikes; Blah-Blah; Bleeding Hearts; Bolsa Algodón; Coals to Newcastle, Panama Hats from Ecuador; Coo/Slur; Daisy Pearl; Denigration; Dim Lady; Dream Cycle; Ectopia; Elliptical; European Folk Tale Variant; Eurydice; Exploring the Dark Content; Fancy Cortex; Free Radicals; The Gene for Music; Hitched to a Star; Jinglejangle; Junk Mail; Kamasutra Sutra; Kirstenography; The Lunar Lutheran.; title: Mantra for a Classless Society, or Mr. Roget's NeighborhoodMusic for Homemade Instruments; Naked Statues; Natural Anguish; Once Ever After; O, 'Tis William; Outside Art; Present Tense; Quality of Life; Resistance Is Fertile; She Swam On from Sea to Shine; Sleeping with the Dictionary; Souvenir from Anywhere; Suzuki Method; Swift Tommy; Ted Joans at the Café Bizarre; Transients; Variation on a Theme Park; Way Opposite; We Are Not Responsible; Why You and I; Wino Rhino; Wipe That Simile Off Your Aphasia; Xenophobic Nightmare in a Foreign Language; X-ray Vision; Zen Acorn; Zombie Hat.